Probe ordered into lack of anti-venom vaccine in Lakki hospitals.

LAKKI MARWAT -- The district health department has formed a two-member committee to probe the death of a woman and her son due to unavailability of anti-venom vaccine in local hospitals.

A woman and her 13-year-old son, who were bitten by a snake in Sulemankhel area near Tajori town on Thursday night, were taken to the Civil Hospital Tajori, but the health facility had no snakebite vaccine, family sources alleged.

They said the two were then taken to the District Headquarters Hospital, but anti-venom vaccine was also not available there. The woman and her son died while being...