Young boy breathes his last in arms of helpless mother

LAHORE - A 7-year-old boy lost his life in the arms of his helpless mother ‘madly’ kissing his dead body after bitten by a stray dog and non-availability of anti-rabies vaccination in the public and private health institutes of Kasur district.

The incident of an innocent boy, Ali Sher’s death has exposed tall claims of the Punjab health department as well as the district governments of providing basic health facilities especially to the people of far-flung areas.

The minor, another victim of the ‘negligence’ of the health department, was son of a poor labourer Muhammad Afzal of Bhela Athar, Kasur.

Two-months long ‘futile’ struggle of the parents to save their minor child is a big question on the performance of the departments concerned that miserably failed in providing anti-rabies vaccination to the people of far-flung areas of the province leaving them at the mercy of the ‘God’.

The horrible tale of the victim family did not end here. The lives of the parents and their other children in the family are also at risk as they themselves contracted rabies infections in the process of his treatment with the kid showing full-blown symptoms of rabies kept biting them.