Four-year-old Alan Panicker had to undergo a plastic surgery in Thiruvananthapuram Medical College.
Opinion
26/08/2016.
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Sub : Why The Stray Dog Menace Is Growing In Kerala
Ref : Media report - NDTV.
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Stray dogs have become a source of danger on the streets of Thiruvananthapuram - a grave threat to residents, especially women, children and the elderly.
Four-year-old Alan Panicker had to undergo a plastic surgery in Thiruvananthapuram Medical College after he was bitten by a stray dog in Kollam on Wednesday. At the time, he was playing with his elder brother. His mother who tried to save him, was also bitten on her hands and feet.
"The dog suddenly came running towards the boy and bit off his cheek. When their mother tried to save the boy and kicked the dog, it attacked her," said his uncle Binu Yohanan.
This incident comes three days after a 65-year-old woman died after being attacked by 50 stray dogs in a coastal village Pulluvilla. A man from rural Thiruvananthapuram was hospitalised on Tuesday after he was badly bitten by a stray dog.
The spurt in dog attacks has been on for a few years and the issue has become a matter of debate. It was even raised in the Assembly earlier this year.
While there is a lack of expert dog catchers, trained vets, and a collapsing infrastructural support, a Supreme Court-appointed panel found that poor waste management was one of the main reasons for the rise in the number of stray dogs. A team appointed by the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation traps a dog with a banned technique -- using iron wires instead of dog traps or nets.
At the only government hospital in Thiruvananthapuram authorized to sterilize dogs, doctors operate despite power cuts and no electricity back up. The hospital is understaffed and has poor infrastructure.
"We need staff, technical team, operation theater and better infrastructure to cope with the number of dogs that need to sterilized. The corporation is looking into these and making arrangements," said Nithin, a veterinary doctor.
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Sub : Dog attacks: Kerala businessman seeks action against Maneka Gandhi
Ref : Media Report : The Hindu
Reports on the Animal Welfare Board of India Chairman planning action against the government’s decision to cull ferocious dogs caused furore
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi is facing flak for her empathy towards dogs and a Kerala businessman on Wednesday even sought legal action against her, after a dog attack killed a 65-year-old woman in Kerala recently.
Maneka Gandhi had held the victim responsible for her own death. While speaking to the news magazine, The Week, she said, “What has happened to the woman is sad. But it is foolish to kill all the stray dogs in that specific area for this reason,” adding “also, I feel the woman must have been carrying some meat with her while going to the beach. Dogs don’t chase you simply.”
Kochuouseph Chittilapally, the businessman who has led several protests in major cities of the state against the stray dog menace, told the media that it was shameful that Gandhi holds the portfolio of women and child welfare.
Chittilapally said: “A case should be registered against her and the media should play their role by boycotting her. None has any clue of why she behaves like this and the residents of Puluvilla where the dogs devoured the lady should see that dangerous dogs are shot dead.”
There was a huge furore in the state after the media reported that the Chairman of the Animal Welfare Board of India, R.M. Kharb, planned action against the state government’s decision to cull ferocious dogs.
Kharb had referred to a Supreme Court directive to point out the futility of the order.
On Tuesday the State Local Self Government Minister K.T. Jaleel had said that the government had ordered administering of medical doses to all ferocious dogs for culling, apart from taking measures to sterilise the animals.
According to the government more than one lakh people in the state have been bitten by stray dogs this year and Kerala leads the rest of the country in the sale of anti-rabies vaccine.
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Sub : Centre: Stray dog menace in Kerala dangerous
Ref : Media report
NEW DELHI: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that frequent stray dog attacks on children in Kerala has created a dangerous situation, which was cited by a petitioner NGO while seeking a direction for compensation and rehabilitation of victims of dog bites.
Petitioner NGO 'Aluva Janaseva' through advocate V K Biju had told the SC that there had been an alarming increase in incidents of stray dog bites in Kerala. "It has increased from an average of 88,178 incidents per year to more than one lakh a year. In 2015, till June, 11 persons died due to rabies contacted through dog bites," Biju said.
The ministry of women and child development in its affidavit said "public health and sanitation; hospital and dispensaries" fell under the state list. "It is, therefore, the duty of the state government to provide sufficient medicines to government as well as private hospitals to tackle the dangerous situation arising due to attack of stray dogs in the state of Kerala," it added.
The NGO said, "There have been frequent incidents of stray dogs chasing, attacking and biting school children, aged persons, pedestrians, morning walkers, two-wheeler riders. Increase in stray dog population in public places like hospitals, railway stations, etc has created panic among the people."
It added, "There is a scarcity of medicines in government hospitals. People are forced to approach private hospitals where the cost of medicines and treatment is mostly beyond the means of daily wagers."
The petitioner gave two examples, one relating to the family of a daily wager whose wife died of rabies after a dog bite as he could not afford treatment.
The WCD ministry said in its affidavit, "The SC may give directions to the state governmentof Kerala to take immediate steps to protect children from attack by stray dogs, the court may direct the state government to issue appropriate direction to local municipal bodies to act according to provisions of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The rehabilitation of the families of victims who died due to stray dog attacks, the state government may take action in this regard."
NOTE -
1. CATCH ALL THE STRAY ANIMALS CATTLE, DOGS ..ETC, AND KEEP WITH ALLOTED ANIMAL WELFARE ORGANISATIONS;
2. STERILIZE THEM TO CURB GROWTH OF STRAY ANIMALS;
3. NEVER ALLOW THEM BACK TO THE STREETS;
4. ALL IN WAR-FOOT, AND;
5. THIS IS CONTINUOUS PROCESS AND NO RELAXATION AGAINST THIS.
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