Animal birth control programme by Sivasagar NGO

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Animal birth control programme by Sivasagar NGO

From Our Correspondent

SIVASAGAR, April 9 – Doya, an NGO working for welfare of animals and

birds in Sivasagar organised its first Animal Birth Control (ABC)

programme recently at Veterinary Hospital campus here through an

awareness meeting presided over by Srimonta Barthakar, president of

the NGO.

 

Dr B Hazarika, veterinary office, Sivasagar speaking as a resource

person enlightened the patticipants about the health hazards caused by

the street dogs and that in India, one person dies every 30 minutes,

of rabbies even though only 15 per cent of the street dogs carry the

dreaded hydrophobia virus (Rebdo virus). He also said that some

pharmacy owners in the market very often switch off the fridge

containing life saving vaccines like that of rabbies which destroys

the vaccines.

 

Dr R Kalita, district Veterinary Officer said that ABC propgrame does

not necessarily include all animals only streeth dogs which may, if

not prevented, will outnumber human.

 

Srimonta Borthakur in his speech said that birth control is more

effective and a humane strategy to combat street dogs' hazard, while

killing them irrationally subseribes to the cult of violence.

 

Doya, he said is adopting the ABC programme to create a rabies-free

environment with an acceptable and friendly street dog population

 

Diganta Bhunya, secretary of the NGO, spoke on the objectives and

thankedCumins India Ltd for attending valuable support to the programme.