RIVER designs cellular app to strengthen rabies surveillance

The Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Veterinary Education and Research (RIVER) launched a cellular app to strengthen rabies surveillance and reporting at an occasion held in reference to World Rabies Day.

The ‘Rabi-Track RIVER App’ was developed by RIVER in collaboration with the Atal Incubation Centre, Puducherry Technological University.

Formally launching the app, Yasin M. Choudhary, Secretary, Animal Husbandry and Chairman of the Pondicherry Veterinary College Society (PVCS), burdened the significance of adopting a ‘One Health’ method for tackling the rabies illness.

A brochure in Tamil highlighting the significance of rabies and its prevention and management measures to be disseminated among the many group was additionally launched on the event within the presence of Okay. Murugavel, RIVER Dean.

Among the dignitaries current had been S. Govindarajan, Mission Director, Puducherry State Health Society, G. Latha Mangeshkkar, Director, Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal Welfare, S. Guneswari, State Nodal Officer (National Rabies Control Programme), IGGGH&PGI; V. Bhanu Rekha, Professor and Head, Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, V.J. Ajay Kumar and M. Nithya Quintoil, Assistant Professor of Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology.

On the event, prizes and certificates had been distributed to the winners of images and quick video contest on rabies prevention held for college kids of Indira Gandhi College of Arts and Science. The initiative aimed to have interaction college students in spreading consciousness among the many public, a press word from RIVER mentioned.

Technical periods led by consultants held subsequently coated a variety of matters together with rabies immunization, animal reservoirs, diagnostic methods, and the aims of the National Rabies Control Programme (NRCP). The periods highlighted the significance of well timed vaccination and post-exposure remedy in saving lives.

The observance was organised with funding help of the National Rabies Control Programme and the Puducherry State Health Mission. The occasion concluded with the screening of a rabies consciousness video produced by RIVER, specializing in prevention, accountable pet possession, and group cooperation in direction of attaining the nationwide objective of eliminating rabies by 2030.