QC opens second animal bite center

QUEZON City Mayor Herbert Bautista has opened a satellite animal bite treatment center in Barangay Batasan Hills on Wednesday, the second such facility maintained by the city government after the one located at city hall.

The new center provides at least four free post-exposure treatments to animal bite patients. Bautista underscored the importance of establishing additional animal bite centers for rabies prevention and control.

Plans are under way for the establishment of animal bite centers at the Quezon City General Hospital and Novaliches District Hospital, the mayor said.  In 2016, the city health department recorded 20,083 animal bite exposures.