Question: By which of the following year, India set the target for the elimination of Rabies, under National Action Plan for dog Mediated Rabies Elimination (NAPRE)?
a) 2025
b) 2030
c) 2029
d) 2023
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:-
- On 28 September 2021; on the occasion of World Rabies Day India launched its new National Action Plan for dog Mediated Rabies Elimination (NAPRE) by 2030.
- India is endemic for rabies and suffers approximately 36% of the world’s human rabies deaths1 transmitted by dogs.
- Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Shri Mansukh Mandaviya said that the zoonotic diseases like Rabies claims the lives of people in their prime denying the family of their earning member.
- This plan gives birth to the National Rabies Control Programme of India with rabies now also declared a notifiable disease.
- Dr Roderico Ofrin, whois World Health Organization’s Representative in India, said that India as a country with rich research and clinical expertise, is a lead producer of rabies biological.
- He said that India is also a country which carries around one third of the global rabies burden; therefore India can play a key role in reaching the global target.
- India is now giving priority to stop this preventable disease; it builds awareness of the importance of action against rabies.
- It got the commitment from the relevant sectors and sets into practice the operationalization of One Health.