DISCUSSION
Instead of its preventive probability, rabies prevails a public health
dilemma of extreme attention. The condition is alarming in Srinagar
where canine rabies has been critically overlooked. In Srinagar, the
disease endurance is due to poverty and the rise of the stray dog
population. The results show that respondents consider that open garbage
dumps are a public health obstacle in the area (chiefly west zone) and
commence to stray dogs proliferation. This could be because the area is
congested and humans and dogs have frequent contact. This area is the
downtown area of Srinagar where streets are populous every time. In this
area, people usually throw food on the streets (Fig 6 & 7). The easy
availability of food rendered by the scraps in the garbage not only
enhances fertility in dogs, but scavenging makes dogs more prone to
attack people. Dogs that get free food from the garbage dropped behind
by bakeshops, abattoirs don’t see people as providers of food and are
major likely to attack them. Most garbage had a household origin and
stray dogs were often attracted by fermentable wastes from cooking or
lapsed foods. This finding is in agreement with ( Abedi et al., 2017 ;
Raymond et al., 2015). A combined rabies control measure coupling dog
sterilization, removal of factors that add to dog free-roaming and
proliferation must be fulfilled. These combined measures can lead to
rabies exclusion for the idea that in Srinagar, dogs are the chief
rabies vectors. Therefore, awareness education should be organized,
targeting people who are regularly accountable for the conveyor of
garbage to dumps; that is, they are more likely to engage stray dogs
scavenging for food nearby dumps.
Managing the municipal solid waste is a global confront. In a region
like Jammu and Kashmir, the task is further daring given the novel
topography and eco-friendly sensibilities. Even if The SMC is working
meticulously in the field to guarantee incorporated and scientific solid
waste management yet this method needs proper segregation of waste.
Municipal authorities find all that an exigent job and that is the
conjecture they want to lift all in vehicles and carry it to someplace
where they plan to treat it, but this is very exigent because all the
conveyed waste is in a blended form. This is mere re-location of garbage
moderately than scientific processing.
Till date around 2,000 sterilizations were conducted and also around
2,000 stray dogs were administered the anti-rabies vaccine however this
is too less in comparison with the total population of dogs and still,
the ballot of dogs from the particular zones of Srinagar is deficient
These actions should be executed by the Srinagar government, which take
the plan to boost the number of veterinary hubs all over.
In conclusion, open garbage dumps are a civic health barrier in the
Srinagar district plus they instigate to stray dogs explosion. The
simple accessibility of chow rendered through the leftovers in the waste
does not merely boost fecundity in dogs, however, foraging makes dogs
further prone to assail people. Dogs that obtain free food from the
waste dropped near the bakeshops, abattoirs don’t see citizens as a
source of food plus are apt to assail them. The over-population of dogs
is consequently formed as well as sustained by the abundance of
possessions humans bestow with, so that it is, in prudence, a ’man-made’
problem. Till date only around 2,000 sterilizations were conducted and
also around 2,000 stray dogs were administered the anti-rabies vaccine
however this is too less in comparison with the total population of dogs
and still, the ballot of dogs from the particular zones of Srinagar is
deficient.