Just as the saying,
‘every dog has its day’, it seems it is stray dogs’ time in our country.
‘Acche din’ have indeed come for stray dogs! And truly sad is the
situation of common people – kids and women being the worst affected
among them.
INDIA
National
Multi centric Rabies Survey, conducted in 2003 by the Association for
Prevention and Control of Rabies in India in collaboration with the
World Health Organization reported that there were 20, 565 deaths from rabies per year in India.More than 10, 00,000 people undergo anti-rabies vaccination every year.
Every
two seconds, one person is bitten by a dog in India. It is reported
that there are approximately 25 million(2.5 crore) dogs, with an
estimated dog: man ratio of 1:36 in India.
How Grave is the situation
It is known that $25 million are
spent on Post Exposure Prophylaxis in India annually. Around 40% of
Post Exposure Prophylaxis is given to children below the age of 15yrs.
Most
rabies deaths were in males (62%), in rural areas (91%), and in
children below the age of 15 years (50%). As per recent National
guidelines for prevention of rabies in India 2013, dogs are responsible
for about 97% of human rabies, followed by cats (2%), jackals, mongoose
and others (1%). Across Asia the annual expenditure due to rabies is
estimated to be reaching 563 million USD.
KERALA
According to a report submitted in the Supreme Court recently in a connected case, it was stated that more than one lakh people in Kerala have been bitten by dogs in 2015-16. The report also said there were about 2.5 lakh street dogs in the state.
If
India is not a a rich developed nation. India is a country with a vast
majority under poverty line. Dogs are carnivorous, it cost more to feed a
dog than a human. While many people struggle for daily bread , i feel
it is inhumane to spend on dogs.
Take the situation of Kerala where dogs menace is the maximum.
Kerala: More than 100 stray dogs attack and kill 65-year-old woman
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 20, 2016:
The stray dog menace in Kerala continues unabated with a 65-year-old
woman being mauled to death by a large pack on a suburban beach at
nearby Kanjiramkulam in the state capital.
The
hapless woman, Siluvamma, a resident of the coastal belt, was attacked
by a large number of stray dogs at Pulluvila beach, according to her
family.
She suffered dog bites all over her body and succumbed to injuries while on her way to hospital.
The dogs also attacked the local people who tried to rescue the woman by chasing them away.
Siluvamma's son Selvan, who was also attacked by the dogs while trying to rescue his mother, escaped by jumping into the sea.
"My
mother went to the beach in the night. As she did not return, I went
out searching for her. What I saw was shocking. She was being attacked
by over 100 stray dogs. She was bleeding all over the body," Selvan told
reporters later.
Meanwhile, in a separate
incident, another native of Pulluvila, Daisy, was also attacked and
severely injured by stray dogs on Friday night.
The 52-year-old woman said she was attacked by a pack of dogs when she went out of the house at around 11.30 pm.
She was rushed to the government medical college here and given a shot of anti-rabies vaccination
Medical
college hospital sources said though she had injuries on her hands and
legs, her condition was stable. She was shifted to Pulluvila primary
healthcare centre for further treatment in the morning, they added.
Stray
dogs have been posing a great threat to people, especially women,
children and the elderly in coastal stretches in Kerala, including
Pulluvila, for some time.
The issue has been a
point of debate in Kerala for the last few years after increase in
incidents of stray dog attacks and was also raised in the Assembly
earlier this year.
According to a report
submitted in the Supreme Court recently in a connected case, more than
one lakh people in Kerala have been bitten by dogs in 2015-16.
The
report was submitted by a committee appointed by the apex court to look
into the aspect of treatment of people bitten by stray dogs and claims
of compensation in the state.
The report also said Kerala is estimated to have stray dog population of 2.5 lakh, which feed lavishly on the waste and garbage dumps across cities and towns.
According to the panel, the maximum reported cases of dog bites were from Thiruvananthapuram - 5948, Palakkad - 4916, Kollam - 3670, Pathanamthitta - 2892, Alappuzha - 2967, Ernakulam - 2050, Thrissur - 2044 cases and Koattayam - 1614.
Kerala is Gods own Country we don’t want to make it Dogs own.
TO KILL THE STRAY DOGS IS THE WAY OUT.
"The
penalty amount for killing a stray dog was only Rs 50. If everyone
decides to kill a stray dog a day, then the menace will be over." -
‘Stray-Dog-free Movement' chairman Kochouseph Chittilappilly
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