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| Rabid dog on prowl at Lal Chowk | | 30 injured, 18 given ARV | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Feb 7: At least thirty persons were mauled by a rabid dog at Lal Chowk in the summer capital today. The victims include women, children, police man and a scribe. All of them were rushed to hospital for Ant Rabid Vaccine (ARV).
According to reports, a rabid dog appeared in Lal Chowk this morning and bit a group of veiled women. Their screams evoked help. The canine was chased by a group of young men. However, the dog ran towards Bisco School and bit several people including children. The dog was later killed.
Some of the victims have been identified as Assistant Editor of Urdu daily Tameel-e-Irshad, Showkat Ahmad, Constable Manzoor Ahmad Wani, Jaipal Singh, Muhammad Muzaffar Jan, Raja Begum, Shaista Akhter, Gowhar Ali, Afroza Ali and others.
The Dog-Bite Section of SMHS hospital said that ARV was given to eighteen persons. All of them have been discharged.
The city of Srinagar, according to rough estimates is home to 2 lakh stray dogs. The SMHS hospital receives around 4000 cases of dog bites every year. There has been a staggering increase in dog bite cases over the past five years. In 2005, these totaled 4311, while the cases added up to 2,873 in 2006, 3434 in 2007 and 4035 in 2008. In the past two years, the SMHS clinic has registered four deaths following dog bites. They include a 4-year old child of south Kashmir's Kokernag area.
The Srinagar Municipality has failed to rid people of the menace. On January 15, 2009 the Srinagar Municipality decided to poison 3000 stray dogs. However, the `war' against the dogs was not waged. On March 13 the Municipality told the concerned people that it was going to kill 100000 stray dogs in the coming months. But dogs continue to flourish and human beings continue to die a painful death due to dog bites.
Over the past two decades, the animal rights activists have managed to prevent poisoning of stray dogs by Srinagar's Municiapl Corporation. A scribe who agitated the matter repeatedly was shown letter of Maneka Gandhi who had threatened the corporation of dire consequences incase the dogs were poisoned.
According to Municipal officials there are more than two lakh stray dogs in the city of Srinagar alone.
The Municipality, media reports suggest, needs 5000 dogs for scavenging. What will happen to the rest? The officials privately admit that castrating the dogs, as suggested by Maneka Gandhi, was a cumbersome process and the best option to have an optimal level of canine population is go for the kill. |
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