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State to be made free of zoonotic diseases

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Thiruvananthapuram: Minister for Animal Husbandry C. Divakaran on Sunday said the Government was working on a project to make the State free of zoonotic diseases.

He was inaugurating a training programme for animal handlers under the Integrated Rabies Control Programme taken up by the City Corporation here.

He stressed the need to ensure people's participation in the activities of the Animal Husbandry Department.

He exhorted veterinary doctors to be alert to the outbreak of zoonotic diseases.

The Government would do everything possible to ensure the security and welfare of the team of animal handlers which would be deployed in the 10 veterinary hospitals across the city.

The project would be extended to Kochi and Kozhikode soon, he said.

Mayor C. Jayan Babu presided. Deputy Mayor V. Jayaprakash, corporation's standing committee on health chairman G.R. Anil, Animal Husbandry director R. Vijayakumar, Animal Birth Control programme nodal officer L. Ravikumar, councillors and chairmen of various standing committees addressed the meeting.

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