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Eight bitten by dogs

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The stray dog menace continued in the city on Friday with eight persons, including an assistant engineer of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), a member of the expert dog-catching team from the Malabar region of Kerala, a police constable and a six-year old boy, bitten by stray dogs between noon and evening at Malleswaram. One case was also reported from Chamarajpet.

Though all the seven victims in Malleswaram went to the K.C. General Hospital for treatment, they were given only tetanus injections, as the hospital did not have stocks of anti-rabies vaccine (ARV).

They were then sent to the BBMP's maternity homes at Srirampuram and Yeshwanthpur, where they got the ARV dose.

According to the BBMP Health Officer (West) Devaki Umesh, doctors at the K.C. General Hospital requested her to provide a few ARV vials from BBMP. "But we could not do that because the hospital is under the Department of Health and Family Welfare Services. So the victims were sent to our hospitals, where we have adequate stocks of the vaccine," Dr. Devaki told The Hindu on Friday.

She said a member of the expert dog-catching team from Malabar was bitten when he was trying to catch a canine.

Clarifying that the six cases were reported from different areas of Malleswarm and not by a single dog, Dr. Devaki said that these ferocious dogs would be caught on Saturday.

Dr. Devaki said the Malabar team, which started work on March 6, would wind up its operations on Saturday and get back to Kerala.

"We have overcome the crisis period now and the number of complaints have come down from 600 a day to 60 a day."

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