Community-based free rabies vaccination service in the Xianang region

“The services of the community are now being done too well. Thank you very much! We have been greatly facilitated by free access to the district for the vaccination of the family's pets and the promotion of the knowledge of the pets, and the point of vaccination is at the door.” The residents of the eastern district of Mangkang are happy to say that they are not the only ones in the region. On the morning of 17 November, the Community Union of the Eastern Region and the Centre for Animal Disease Prevention and Control in the Uang District of Xian City carried out a free-of-charge rabies vaccination campaign for pets, which was the second such campaign to be carried out this year by the Community of the Eastern Region.

"What are the procedures after the pet vaccine?" "What are the procedures for my dog's first vaccine?" "What do you need to notice after the vaccine?" At the direction of community workers, the residents are registered with pet cats and dogs, lined up, and the questions posed by the residents are answered in detail by the staff of the Centre for Animal Disease Prevention and Control in the Uygur district.

“Quick, accurate, light”, vaccination doctors are skilled, pet cats and dogs are not responding to pain, and doctors have finished. At the same time, there was a canine awareness-raising counter at the site, staff of the epidemic control centre gave residents information about rabies, methods of vaccination of the APP, community workers distributed information leaflets on rabies prevention and control to the population, and provided the population with knowledge about legal dogs and the documentation of dogs.

As a next step, other forms of civilized dog-raising and scientific petry will continue to be promoted in the Ego region to ensure the effective prevention of rabies in the region and to add bricks to the building of happy communities.