The Oyo State Government has commenced anti-rabies vaccination campaign to curb the menace of rabies in the state. The state Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Barrister Olasunkanmi Olaleye, who made this known on Friday, disclosed that the campaign was in collaborated with the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association, Oyo State Branch.
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A statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, quotes Olaleye as saying that the exercise was also part of activities marking the 2023 World Rabies Day, in Ibadan, the state capital.
Olaleye stated that the vaccination programme demonstrated the Oyo State Government’s resolve to eradicate rabies by increasing the availability and accessibility of anti-rabies vaccines in the state.
He said it is important that humans are protected from diseases that are transmissible from animals, as about 70 percent of infectious diseases affecting humans are of animal origin.
Olaleye stated: “We have also improved our surveillance and reporting systems, to monitor anthrax and every zoonotic disease, to evaluate the impact of our collective interventions.”
He, however, hinted that Oyo State would be ready to partner with any association or group to ensure people of the state are healthy.
In his address, the Chairman, Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association, Oyo State branch, Dr Moses Arokoyo, commended the Oyo State Government for being proactive in fighting against zoonotic diseases, disclosing that free anti-rabies vaccination of dogs was part of efforts to celebrate this year’s Wold Rabies Day.
In another development, the Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Architect Abdulmojeed Mogbonjubola, has engaged owners of companies and industrial facilities in the state over the state government’s stance on absolute cleanliness and Environmental Law compliance.
Thr statement says Mogbonjubola met with various owners of agro-allied and chemical industries, construction companies, food and breverages industries, quarries and other industrial facilities in the state.
He called for adequate collaboration in sustaining the environment through healthy ways of evacuation of both their solid, liquid or recircled and emitted wastes.
