A teenage boy has died of rabies in Karachi despite receiving anti-rabies vaccination three months earlier at a public sector hospital, raising serious concerns over post-bite treatment and follow-up care.
According to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center’s (JPMC) emergency department in-charge Dr. Irfan Siddiqi, the 13-year-old was brought to the hospital on May 26 at around 11am.
He said the boy had been bitten by a stray dog around three months earlier and had received a full course of vaccination at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
However, when he was brought to JPMC, he had been running a fever for 10 days and had also developed fits for one day along with irritability and hydrophobia, both of which are associated with rabies infection.
Doctors admitted him to the neuromedical ward, but he died during treatment at 3:30pm the same day.
Dr. Siddiqi said the boy was a laborer.
The case has once again highlighted the dangers posed by stray dog bites in Karachi and the continued threat of rabies, a disease that is almost always fatal once symptoms appear.
It also raises troubling questions about whether the victim received timely and complete post-exposure care, or whether other factors may have contributed despite vaccination.
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