‘No deaths related to rabies in last 3 years in Goa’

NT NETWORK

Panaji

Dr Anisha Carol flagged off the rabies awareness campaign vehicles on the occasion of World Rabies Day awareness in the presence of Kuldeep Singh Gangar (IAS) secretary Agriculture & AHVS and others at the entrance of the Animal Husbandry Directorate near Kadamba Bus Terminus in the city on Tuesday.

Director of Education (India) Mission Rabies, Dr Murugan Appupillai said that Goa has been the first state in the country which has been declared as rabies controlled area with no human rabies deaths in the last three
years.

The death anniversary of scientist Louis Pasteur who developed the rabies vaccine is being celebrated as World Rabies Day/rabies awareness day.

“We lost many precious lives in the absence of a vaccine for Covid but it is a shame that in the case of rabies we are still losing 20,000 lives every day in India even after 130 years of developing the vaccine for rabies, he said adding that is why the awareness campaign was started today with four mobile awareness vehicles with messages and pictures.”

Vehicles with messages and pictures with public announcement system will go to each and every village in the state during the static point free vaccination will be given until October 26, 2021. The campaign was inaugurated by  secretary agriculture, in the presence of Dr Marwin Lopes, nodal officer rabies control Dr Murugan, Director Mission Rabies and all the field veterinary doctors and mission rabies team.

He said the state has achieved a landmark status by being the first Indian state to receive such an accolade and beating a disease that has resulted in the death of 17 people in Goa during 2014 when the Mission Rabies project was started.

The Goa government has declared the state as “Rabies controlled state” by a notification number 14-9-AH/Rabies control/2021-22/679 dated May 17, 2021. This shall continue to save lives. It shall also improve animal welfare, reduce fear of dogs within Goa and promote national and international tourism.

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