Bringing changes in rabies treatment protocol
(WorldNews India)

It was following the relentless efforts of Omesh Kumar Bharti, an epidemiologist, that the World Health Organization changed the guidelines for application of rabies immunoglobulins (RIG) on wounds in 2018. His studies challenged the norms for intramuscular injection in rabies treatment that had made the vaccine and RIG inaccessible to the common man. Dr. Bharti was awarded Padmashree...