NAROWAL, Oct 2: DHQ Hospital medical superintendent Dr Zulafqar Ali said on Monday that anti-venom was available with the hospital and that the duty doctor had administered the dose to the two minor brothers on Saturday night who later died in Lahore.

Talking to this correspondent, he said Ahson and Asad were referred to Lahore because of their serious condition. Rejecting the claim of victims’ uncle Muhammad Iqbal, he said the hospital had in its stocks 37 vials.

A hospital storekeeper who was on duty on Saturday night had however told Dawn on Sunday that no-one visited him to seek the vaccine.

Iqbal had told newsmen here on Sunday that since anti-venom was not available at the local DHQ, they were referred to Lahore.

He said that Mayo and

Ganga Ram hospitals in the Punjab capital were also out of stocks.