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| With 91 thousand stray dogs on prowl, Srinagar bags ‘Best City Leader Award’ | | Comedy of errors! | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 25: It is ironic to find Srinagar Smart City Ltd bagging the '' Best City Leader of the Year Award'' at the Smart Cities India Awards 2022 announced on Friday in New Delhi that too at a time when there are more than 91,000 stray dogs instilling fear in the so-called smart city, making it one dog for every 12 citizens of Srinagar.
As per the reports, Lieutenant Governor Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha took a twitter and congratulates Srinagar Smart City Ltd for bagging this award. LG Sinha wrote, ''Congratulations @sclsrinagar for bagging the 'Best City Leader of the Year Award' at Smart Cities India expo.'' ''This award is a testimony of our commitment to bring qualitative improvement in the lives of the citizens & prepare our cities to act as engines of growth, '' he said.
However, the situation on the ground is quite contrary. The research paper titled ‘Occurrence of Dog Bites and Rabies within Humans in Srinagar, Kashmir’ by Namera Thahab et al reveals that Open garbage dumps and dog bite are public health impasse in the Kashmir region. In Srinagar city, there are more than 91,000 dogs and it’s making one dog for every 12 citizens. Conversely, there are more than 80,000 dog bites, are reported in the valley. The solitary anti-Rabies clinic i.e. Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital has finished its stock in fourfold in ten months. The overwhelming majority of dog bite cases 9514 were from Srinagar. The irresistible dog bite cases were 80% from urban spaces and 20% from the rural vicinity.
“When the dog threatens the victim, bites of lower extremities are seen. This is the verity where the dog threatened the victim, the victim moves apart inducting contact and because the lower extremities is the closest part of the body to the dog.
Victims who threatened the dog are more prone to bite on upper extremities. Although only some of the bites were seen on the face and head, we observed that children aged below 10 were radically extra prone to be bitten on the head in disparity to older ages. Typically children display offensive acts towards the dogs, and the head of the child is closer to the mouth of the dog. The majority of the bites were category.When dog’s assault people its teeth penetrate into the deeper tissues causing deeper wound. The people were receiving immunoglobins. This could be due to improved communication and information, each time any individual is bitten by a dog the citizens assemble there and recommend them to visit the SMHS hospital. The West zone has witnessed the peak number of cases. This might be because the area is crowded plus humans and dogs have recurrent contact. One more possible reason might be due to open garbage dumps that boosts the risk factor for rabies transmission. This is the downtown area where streets are densely inhabited each time. Here, people regularly throw food on the streets. The simple accessibility of food in the garbage not merely augments fertility in dogs, but foraging makes dogs extra prone to attack public,” the research paper concludes.
Now, when the situation in Srinagar has come to such a pass, one wonders why the award was accorded to Srinagar and what parameters were chosen. |
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