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Now no more pain of anti-rabies vaccines

Staff Reporter

Intra-dermal vaccines introduced at MCKCG Medical College Hospital in Berhampur

BERHAMPUR: A person bitten by a dog in the city would no more have to bear the pricking pain of anti-rabies vaccines administered in the abdomen.

On Wednesday administration of intra-dermal anti-rabies vaccine was launched at the anti-rabies clinic at the MKCG medical college.

Principal of the medical college Suraraj Patnaik and its superintendent B.K.Bastia were present at the inaugural ceremony.

The intra-dermal vaccines are injected on arms that make them less painful.

The earlier anti-rabies vaccines prepared from the grey matter of sheep's brain that were being given at government hospitals had to be administered in the abdomen.

Restricted

The EHO has recently restricted the use of these vaccines. The State Government was also planning to substitute the old anti-rabies vaccines with the new intra-dermal vaccines at all hospitals in the State.

As initial measure the intra-dermal vaccines would be available at three medical colleges in the state and the capital hospital in Bhubaneswar.

MKCG Medical College was the first government institution in the State to start this service for the public.

Dr Bastia and Dr Patnaik termed rabies or hydrophbia to be an incurable disease.

Every year around 20,000 persons die of hydrophobia in the country.

In most cases rabies or hydrophobia spreads through bites of rabid dogs.

Doctors' tips

The physicians at the MKCG medical college advised three steps to be free from rabies even after a dog bite.

The wound has to be washed with soap, immunoglobins have to be applied at the wound and anti-rabies vaccines have to be taken.

They asked people not to believe sorcery to be a cure for rabies as people resort to tantric rituals following mad dog bite.

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