Hundreds of Filipinos die of rabies each year

With about 600 Filipinos die of rabies every year and the number still increasing prompted Rep. Gavini Pancho (2nd District, Bulacan) to file a bill urging the pharmaceutical companies in the country to produce special single packaging of anti-rabies vaccine.

Pancho said the bill authorizes the Department of Health (DOH) to transact with the pharmaceutical companies to produce a rabies vaccine that can be singly administered to patient and made available in all government hospitals.