Kathmandu, Nov. 7 -- A few months ago, a woman in her early 30s from outside the Kathmandu Valley was rushed to Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital after she exhibited rabies symptoms. Her husband told doctors that he had taken her wife to nearby health facilities for an anti-rabies vaccine after a dog bite, but the facility lacked an anti-rabies vaccine at the time.

"I didn't have money to buy the anti-rabies vaccine from a private pharmacy, and neither hospital nor private pharmacies warned me about the fatal risks if the vaccine is not administered immediately," a doctor at the hospital quoted the victim's husband as saying. "I am a daily wage labourer and would have done anything to save my wife."

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