In a mass campaign, as many as 10,000 stray dogs across all 74 divisions of the Kochi Corporation in Kerala will be vaccinated in three days under the Mission Rabies campaign of Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS) in November.
A 200-strong team will be deployed as part of the mass vaccination campaign.
Though WVS has been running projects in association with local bodies across the country, this is for the first time that the Corporation is associating with it. WVS experts will work alongside the Corporation’s dog catchers during the campaign.
Already, awareness sessions are being held for school students. Stray dogs with symptoms of rabies are being observed, tested, and vaccinated as part of the campaign, which had a soft launch in August.
The Kochi Corporation is also pinning its hopes on an assurance by WVS to make available the service of six well-trained dog catchers under the Mission Rabies campaign to improve the functioning of its Animal Birth Control (ABC) centre at Brahmapuram.
