Kathmandu, June 28 -- The Health Department of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has provided 1,800 vials of anti-rabies vaccine to the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital after the hospital requested an emergency supply to cope with a severe shortage.

KMC officials say they procured the vaccine doses directly from suppliers and delivered them to the hospital, which had been facing a critical shortage of anti-rabies vaccine for the past several weeks.

"The hospital administration had written to us requesting vaccine doses, and we also learnt about the shortage through media reports. So we have supplied 1,800 doses," said Deepak Kumar KC, chief of the department.

The 1,800 vials contain around 3,600 doses, which are en...