Minor Administered Rabies Injection Instead Of Tetanus In Odisha

Balasore: In a bizarre incident, a boy was administered a rabies vaccine instead of a tetanus jab at Nilagiri in Odisha’s Balasore.

According to sources, the minor, Jyoti Prakash Sethi, attended a birthday party on Thursday night where he got a cut on his hands by a blade. He visited the sub-divisional hospital in Nilagiri along with his father on Friday morning to take the tetanus jab.

Sethi stood in the queue of rabies patients by mistake following which the doctor prescribed three injections allegedly after knowing about the cut on his hand. Thereafter, a nurse administered Sethi a jab of rabies injection and asked him to visit again for the second jab.

Meanwhile, his father inquired about the injection suspecting foul play in the jabs and found out that the doctor had mentioned rabies injection instead of tetanus.

His father immediately consulted with a pediatrician Rajendra Singh about the incident who then pacified him saying that it will not have any side effects.

Singh said that it would work as a preventive measure for future dog bites after being given two more jabs of the same in order to complete the course. Later, Sethi was also given a tetanus injection.