Overview
- Official tallies show more than 800–850 dog-bite cases in Karachi in the first five days of 2026, with Indus and Civil hospitals treating about 300 each and Jinnah over 250.
- Indus Hospital reports many victims are under two years old with severe facial injuries, and all patients received post-exposure anti-rabies vaccination.
- Mayor Murtaza Wahab says culling should be considered for immediate relief, calling neutering too slow and pointing to repeated court challenges from opponents.
- Sindh authorities have ordered faster vaccination and sterilisation and upgrades to rabies centres, extending a Rs963.316 million programme to June 2026 after reaching 19,449 sterilisations and 30,729 vaccinations.
- A late-December rabies death of a Jacobabad boy raised Sindh’s 2025 fatalities to more than 21, reinforcing the need for prompt treatment.