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1 Lakh Dogs Roaming in City
Srinagar: The department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Government Medical College, has introduced the intra-dermal regimen of anti-rabies immunization to treat dog bites.
“During the treatment, only four visits are required and 0.1 ml is injected at two sites on each visit due to which less than a vial is required as against five through intra-muscular route,” said lecturer SPM and APCRI member Dr. S. Muhammad Salim Khan on Tuesday. He was addressing the continued medical education programme organised by the GMC in collaboration with national service scheme and association for prevention and control of rabies in India to observe world rabies week.
Dr Saleem underscored the need to control the dog population in the Valley. “About 16000 cases of animal bites have been reported from anti-rabies clinic run by SPM while as many peripheral hospitals are also managing such cases which add to the number while many more are unreported,” Dr Saleem added.
Addressing the gathering, the participants expressed concern over increasing numbers of dogs in valley, especially in city where their number is reported to be about 80,000 to one lakh. They urged authorities to take necessary steps to control the population of canines and asked the human right activists to challenge any rule or law in the Court that threatens human life.
(Greater Kashmir)