MP: Video of dog on Ratlam Hospital bed goes viral, CMHO says unaware

Ratlam: In a shocking incident, a video of a dog dozing off on a hospital bed in Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh went viral on social media. The opposition Congress criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party government for the "worrisome health system" in the state.

Ratlam Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr. Prabhakar Nanavare told PTI he was unaware of the incident as he was on leave.

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In a tweet, MP Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja said dogs were getting sound sleep in the state under the BJP dispensation while patients could not get beds in hospitals.

The video is from a government hospital in Alot here, Saluja claimed.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a 12-year-old girl who was on ventilator support after being bitten by a stray dog had died at the Kottayam Medical College despite having taken three doses of the anti-rabies vaccine. The Kerala Health Department sources said that "clinical features indicated that the child died due to rabies, but we are awaiting results of the confirmatory test from the National Institute of Virology in Pune."

The girl, a native of Ranni in the Pathanamthitta district of Kerala had been bitten several times by a stray dog when she had gone to buy milk on the morning of August 14. After being bitten, she was immediately taken to a hospital and had received three doses of the anti-rabies vaccine to date and was scheduled to get the fourth one on September 10. 

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