ISLAMABAD, 19 October 2005 — Pakistan’s disaster response chief made a desperate international appeal for tetanus medicine yesterday, saying the quake-hit country needed at least 100,000 doses as soon as possible.
“We have an urgent need for anti-tetanus globalin to treat victims who have developed tetanus disease,” Maj.-Gen. Farooq Ahmad Khan told a news conference.
“There are many injured whose wounds have now been affected,” he said.
“We need a maximum number of anti-tetanus globalin. We request everyone abroad to fly this as soon as possible... This medicine must be flown in a quantity of 100,000 as soon as possible.”
Doctors warned last week that thousands of survivors from the massive October 8 quake could die if their wounds were not treated.
