NAWABSHAH, Feb 26: Dog-bite cases are on the rise here as during the last three days alone at least 25 cases have been reported in the district.

Sources at the Peoples Medical College Hospital said that daily seven to eight cases were being reported in the hospital. The risk of death was also increasing as most of the patients were poor and could not afford anti-rabies injections.

The doctors at the PMCH said that sub-standard injections of anti-rabies were available in the local market which could prove lethal for the patients.

On being contacted, the medical superintendent, Peoples Medical College Hospital, Dr Ali Nawaz Khoso, said that he had received complaints regarding the sale of sub-standard injections in Nawabshah, and added that he had informed the EDO (health) regarding it. He further said that strict action would soon be taken against the medical stores which were selling them.

He further said that the hospital was short of anti-rabies injections but they had arranged for some for poor patients.

FIR: A man, Rasool Bux Jamali, lodged an FIR with the B-section police against his stepfather, Ghulam alias Gul Hassan Khaskhel.

The FIR said that Mr Jamali’s mother, Hidayat Khatoon (70), had been tortured to death by his stepfather.