Young boy breathes his last in arms of helpless mother

After hectic efforts, the victim family managed to find a dispensary situated in a village, Fateh Pur where anti-rabies vaccination was available but it was too late. After the 9th injection, the condition of the child got critical. As the condition went worse, the dispensary doctors suggested the victim family to start a substitute anti-rabies vaccination, which was too costly. Despite financial constraints, the helpless family searched the prescribed vaccine in all the public and private medical centers of the city but the vaccination was not available.

Nobody could imagine the miseries of the mother of the child who was running from one place to the other carrying her minor in her arms in search of vaccination.

Meanwhile, the victim boy started biting his mother and other family members due to rabies disease, which by then had fully developed.

“It is only the God who knows better my feelings when I taped mouth of my crying son to avoid his bites”, Muhammad Afzal said this while taking to The Nation.

Afzal said that he couldn’t forget the scene in rest his of life when he saw his son in the arms of his mother who was kissing the dying baby helplessly with tears in her eyes. “My baby breathed his last in the arms of his mother”, Afzal said and started weeping. Awais Qerni, a member of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan who was eyewitness of the incident and resident of same village said that he would take up the issue with the authorities concerned.

While expressing his strong reservation, he said that non-availability of dog-bite vaccination in all the public and private hospitals in Kasur was a matter of great concern.

He also alleged that the vaccination provided to the minor in the dispensary of Fatah Pur village was substandard.