Over a decade after Sindh first launched a project to produce its own anti-snakebite serum, the province still has nothing tangible to show for it. The Public Accounts Committee's recent revelation that Rs1.7 billion have gone into this project since 2012, yet no doses have been delivered, is a major bureaucratic failing as well as a public-health crisis.

Snakebites are not a minor burden in Sindh. Tens of thousands of incidents are reported each year and around a........

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