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Animal bite treatment clinic brings hope
« on: July 01, 2007, 09:29:08 AM »
By June Blanco
July 1, 2007

“THE boy will survive.”

Thus Chito San Agustin Jr., business development manager of the Family Vaccine and Specialty Clinics (FVSC) confidently said of a three-year-old dog bite victim from Barangay Fatima in Carmen town.

The boy’s family went to the Animal Bite Treatment Clinic at the Cong. Simeon G. Toribio Memorial Hospital (CSGTMH) in the same town on the day Gov. Erico Aumentado inaugurated it – four days after a stray dog bit him. The mother said after biting the boy, the dog bit another dog and a sow, bolstering the theory that the stray was rabid.

The World Health Organization (WHO) prescribes that dogs that have bitten persons be observed for the next 10 days. If the dog manifests changes in its behavior – especially if for the worse – chances are it is rabid, and the patient must be given the full course of the vaccination.

The rabies virus travels very slowly but when it reaches the brain, there is no stopping it – it will kill the victim. But while rabies is fatal, it is preventable.

As Dr. Alberto Gabriel, rabies expert, lectured on the disease, its categories, methods of transmission, do’s and don’ts, treatment courses and other information at the hospital conference room after Aumentado gave his message, the boy received a series of anti-rabies vaccine shots around his nose where the dog bit him amid his heart-rending cries of pain.

FVSC follows the eight-injection site regimen with the first and the last shots free of charge courtesy of the IP Foundation.

San Agustin however told the boy’s parents that they are sponsoring the whole vaccination course so that he will be receiving all the shots free.

Meanwhile, Gabriel said victims should avoid using garlic on the bites. Although used since time immemorial as first aid for dog bites, he said WHO discourages its use. It has no scientific basis, he explained.
He also warned pet owners against the zealous licks and kisses of their dogs. Rabies, he said, is transmitted through rabies-laden saliva on breaks on the skin and on the eyes, lips and mouth.

Aumentado also led the inaugural rites of the treatment clinic at the Cong. Teodoro Galagar Memorial Hospital in Jagna town while Vice Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera and Loon Mayor and now Board Member Cesar Tomas Lopez led the same at the Cong. Natalio Castillo Memorial Hospital in Loon town.

FVSC has several treatment clinics nationwide. The next clinics to be opened in Bohol will be those at the Dagohoy Hospital in Inabanga town, the Candijay Medicare Hospital and the Catigbian District Hospital in Candijay and Catigbian towns. Plans are afoot for the Maribojoc Medicare Hospital and the Don Emilio del Valle Memorial Hospital in Ubay town, San Agustin said.

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