Government Begins Anti–Rabies Vaccination, Targets Zero Death By 2030

The national authorities launched the 2025 nationwide wide anti-rabies vaccination run successful Abuja and called for corporate work to extremity the decease of humans from rabies by 2030.

At the campaign’s flag-off astatine the Old Parade Ground successful Abuja, the curate of Livestock Development, Idi Mukhtar Maiha, described rabies arsenic 1 of the deadliest but astir preventable zoonotic diseases.

He said coordinated enactment was captious to the eradication of the disease.

The curate said this year’s theme, “You, Me and the Community”, “reminds america that authorities efforts unsocial cannot destruct rabies. It requires the progressive engagement of each citizen—policy makers, veterinarians, canine owners, hunters, teachers, parents, and each assemblage members.”

Maiha revealed that 26,000 doses of anti-rabies vaccines had been procured for contiguous rollout successful states with the highest recorded cases successful the past six months, including Lagos, Gombe, Bauchi, Plateau, Cross River, Kano, Osun and the FCT.

The organisation volition beryllium extended to veterinary teaching hospitals and national colleges of carnal wellness successful Plateau, Oyo and Kaduna States.

Maiha said the run would deploy integer tools specified arsenic the Kobotool App to way real-time vaccination information and urged communities to enactment veterinary services successful reporting cases and ensuring wide coverage.

In her remarks, the ministry’s imperishable secretary, Dr Chinyere Akujobi, represented by the manager of Planning, Research and Statistics, Mr Stephen Ohaeri, described this year’s World Rabies Day solemnisation arsenic a telephone to enactment for each stakeholders.

She thanked partners and frontline workers for their committedness to rabies prevention and urged them to prolong the momentum.

The main veterinary serviceman of Nigeria, Dr Muhammed Inuwa, represented by the caput of Public Health and Epidemiology, Dr Samuel Anzaku, expressed optimism that the flag-off of the run would construe into factual action.

Similarly, the nationalist task coordinator for L-PRES, Dr Sanusi Abubakar, pledged continued collaboration with the ministry to standard up vaccination programmes nationwide.

In a goodwill message, the manager of Veterinary Services, FCT, Dr Idris Ademoh, called for a reappraisal of the Animal Disease Control Act to code wider challenges successful carnal health.

He stressed the request to combat bovine tuberculosis and recommended introducing a compensation model for butchers whose infected cattle are condemned, to support some livelihoods and nationalist health.

The chairperson of the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA), FCT Chapter, Dr Chinna Joe-Iruobe, who besides serves arsenic an adjunct commissioner of police, expressed optimism that the run would deepen awareness, peculiarly successful agrarian areas wherever rabies is much prevalent.