KARACHI: As many as 7,291 dog bite cases have been registered across Karachi city from 1st January to 30 March 2021 while Sindh government and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) have failed to chalk out a strategy to control the cases.
Sources at Sindh health department told PPI that in Karachi, more than 7,291 dog bite cases had been recorded in the megalopolis so far out of which 2,650 were registered in Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), 2,800 at Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi and 1841 in Indus Hospital Karachi.
The dog bite cases are being reported from slum areas of Ibrahim Hyderi, Korangi, Surjani, North Karachi, New Karachi, Baldia, Orangi, Keamari, Mehmoodabad, Liaquatabad, Federal B Area, Sohrab Goth, Orangi, Golimar and other areas.
The Sindh health department and KMC have miserably failed to launch a comprehensive campaign against stray dogs. Presently, anti-rabies vaccination is available at three major health facilities of Karachi city including Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (SMBB) Institute of Trauma and Indus Hospital (TIH) free of cost.
In 2020, an estimated 200,000 dog bite cases were registered across the province out of which majority of them was reported in Karachi, Naushehro Feroze, Khairpur, Kashmore, Dadu and other districts.