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EArly times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: National Council for Urban and Rural Development Society (NCURDS) Jammu in collaboration with Vigyan Setu Foundation Mumbai Maharashtra and National Council for Teacher Scientists (NCTS) J & K organized a webinar on rabies prevention and control.
The webinar was attended by 100 participants on zoom platform and more than 400 participants on facebook live besides Zaffarullah Khan Founder Secretary NCURDS, Dr. Chandra Moli Joshi, Chairman NCTS and Sandip Patil National General Secretary NCTS.
The program was coordinated by Dr. Ashaq Hussain of Govt. Degree College Chatroo while Dr. Lalit Sharma Veterinary Consultant and Managing Trustee of Vigyan Setu Foundation was the resource persons who deliberated on global, national and local scenario, clinical case presentation and management of animal bite exposure.
Earlier in his welcome address Dr. Ashaq Hussain added that Rabies causes tens of thousands of human deaths every year disproportionately affecting rural communities from economically disadvantaged areas of Africa and Asia. The appropriate tools for the elimination of the disease already exist making the global elimination of dog-mediated human rabies feasible. Despite all, there are still many challenges for implementing rabies elimination programmes, due to lack of awareness.
Kuldeep Gupta Director NCTS-J&K briefed the participants about the mission and work of organizations NCURDS, NCTS and Vigyan Setu Foundation. Dr. Lalit Sharma the key speaker on his part highlighted the burden of rabies for poor and rural local communities, the need to vaccinate dogs to protect people, increasing awareness on dog bite prevention, immediate first aid for bite wounds and post-bite treatment when appropriate. The presentation also focused on the role of surveillance so that data/evidence informs monitoring, evaluation and better programmatic planning and dog and human vaccine procurement forecasts.
Presentations were followed by a series of questions from participants and answers from the panel members. |
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