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The deficiency of sustained measures by the authoritative machinery successful controlling the stray canine menace has resulted successful 15 villagers, including children, suffering canine wound successful the coastal hamlet of Manakkudi adjacent Kanniyakumari connected Tuesday night.
After a stray canine unleashed panic successful Manakkudi colony since Tuesday evening, 15 persons suffered canine wound till precocious successful the nighttime and victims Annie, Lissy, Amala Mary, Thangam and Mary Stella and a fewer much children were admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital astatine Aasaaripallam portion 7 others took attraction from backstage hospitals.
“Three of these children had suffered heavy bikes successful their heads and face,” said the doctors.
The villagers said the stray dogs were regularly chasing the children going to the schoolhouse either connected ft oregon connected bicycles and wound them and the villagers had to instrumentality antagonistic measures to tackle the menace aft the authoritative machinery was allegedly successful heavy slumber contempt repeated appeals from the public.
“A radical of people, who task themselves arsenic ‘animal lovers’, are feeding the stray dogs astatine respective places of Kanniyakumari territory including the territory capital, Nagercoil, with uncooked chickenhearted discarded similar heads, legs, intestine etc. to marque things worse,” the villagers complain.
According to the officials attached to the Department of Public Health, a full of 2,440 persons had suffered canine wound successful Kanniyakumari territory since past April. “In December alone, 333 idiosyncratic had to beryllium administered anti-rabies vaccine successful December unsocial aft thoroughfare dogs spot them and 1 of the victims died of rabies. The section bodies acrophobic should instrumentality sustained antagonistic measures to neutralise the stray canine menace,” the officials said.
Visiting the victims astatine Government Medical College Hospital astatine Aasaaripallam connected Tuesday night, Kanniyakumari District Collector R. Alagumeena inquired astir the information of the victims. She besides reportedly asked the section bodies to instantly commencement carnal commencement power measures.
Situation wrong Tirunelveli Corporation limits is besides truly menacing arsenic a fewer 100 stray dogs that are freely roaming on the streets airs menace to the public, particularly for the elder citizens going for greeting stroll.
“We, a radical of retired authorities staff, request to transportation instrumentality ever during greeting locomotion to endanger the dogs charging towards us. As the roadside eateries and a fewer residents discard the nutrient discarded on the streets, these stray dogs feeding connected these,” said S. Balasubramanian of NGO Colony.
Corporation officials said deficiency of carnal commencement power measures was the premier crushed down the alarming emergence successful stray canine colonisation successful Tirunelveli metropolis arsenic funds meant for carnal commencement power was not released by the government.
“Since the stray dogs cannot beryllium killed arsenic per instrumentality adjacent though they are life-threatening, we tin lone power the canine colonisation for which we request funds,” said a elder authoritative of Tirunelveli Corporation.
