Kerala human rights panel orders probe into rabies death

The report should also indicate which agency is capable of testing and studying the quality of the rabies vaccine, it said.

Justice Alexander Thomas asked the government to consider appointing an agency, as recommended by the NCDC, to study recent rabies death cases and recommend preventive measures.

The Additional Chief Secretary (Health) must submit a report within one month on the implementation of the instructions, it said, reports PTI.

The Deputy Director of Medical Education and a representative of the Health Secretary should be present at the sitting to be held at the Commission's office here on June 10, an official statement said.

The order was issued in a case registered on its own by the Commission based on media reports about the recent rabies deaths.

The directive came a day after a seven-year-old girl, Niya Faisal, a native of Kollam district, breathed her last at a state-run hospital here in the early hours of Monday.

Niya's tragic demise happened just days after a six-year-old girl in Malappuram district, Ziya Faris, died of rabies despite having received vaccination.

A 13-year-old girl, hailing from Pullad in Pathanamthitta, also succumbed to the infection, recently after receiving prescribed vaccine doses.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that in an unfortunate incident, a six-year-old girl receiving treatment at the Government Medical College Hospital (GMCH) in Kerala's Malappuram district died of rabies, a month after being bitten by a stray dog, despite having received preventive vaccination, family sources said.

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