Child Dies Due To Lack Of Anti-Venom Vaccine.

MOHMAND -- Due to a lack of anti-venom vaccine in any of the govAernment-run health centres in tehsil Khwezai, a sevAen-year-old Junaid bitten by a scorpion died.

Tehsil Khewaizai Village Council (VC) chairman Qari Ibrahim while talking to local journalists at Mohmand Press Club on Monday said that a seven-year-old boy Junaid son of Niaz Ali resident of village Kozokas area of Khewaizai was changing his dress at home last evening when a scorpion bit him. The resAidents shifted him to a nearby hospital, but venom vaccine against poison wasn't available in any of the health centres in tehsil Khwezai, he said and added the affected child died on return.

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