Dog Bite and Rabies Vaccine

My GF was bitten yesterday by a dog owned by a neighbour who lives ~150 meters up the road from us. Two puncture wounds, with bleeding.

I immediately took her to the S.O.S. clinic here in our village of Cua Duong.

Topical antibiotic applied, prescription for oral antibiotic series (10 days), and the first 2 injections of the 10 injections she'll receive over the next 30 days (next visit is 10/03). There will be, in total, 5 visits where she will receive 2 injections each time. The doctor who attended to her said that in the past week he'd seen more dog bite victims than he'd seen for the whole of the previous year. He had no explanation as to why.

The cost for the examination, written prescription, wound treatment with bandage, and the 10 rabies vaccine shots (paid in advance) was 1.5 million VND. Had we opted for treatment at Duong Dong hospital, I'm told the cost would have been only ~250K VND due to her being a VN citizen, but that the wait time could amount to 2 or 3 hours (gak!).    Yeah, well...S.O.S. it is then.

This post isn't a plug for S.O.S.'s services, but in the 5 or 6 times I've visited them, their service has been excellent.  S.O.S. makes the news quite a bit here in Phu Quoc, treating spider, snake, and dog bites.

I can highly recommend their services.

There's been much(!) drama between that neighbour and I during my 3 visits to him since then. Drama which came very close to escalating beyond any verbal context. I advised him my next action will be to the police on Monday morning. I'll update the forum on the result of the police action (if any).