The Ministry of Public Health reiterated late last week that vaccinations for the prevention of human rabies are available in all of the public hospitals and Primary Attention Centers. Persons bitten by animals should get the preventive shots. Hector Quezada, the deputy minister of Collective Health, made the announcement to clarify that while it is true that the Anti-Rabies Center is closed for renovations, the vaccines are still available nationwide.
The announcement comes as the nation is following the case of a six-year-old boy who is in a coma at the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital in Santo Domingo and presenting symptoms of human rabies. Quezada said tests were sent to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia in order to verify the diagnosis of rabies now that the local Anti-Rabies Center is closed.
The former CMD president, Waldo Ariel Suero criticized the shutdown of the Anti-Rabies Center.
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3 December 2018
