Vaccination Campaign launched in Chandigarh to control Lumpy Skin Disease in Cattle.
In the wake of incidences/ outbreak of Lumpy Skin Disease in cattle in neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana and sporadic cases in Chandigarh UT, the Department of Animal Husbandry, Chandigarh Administration is taking up all preventive measures to control the disease in the city. All types of assistance including free medicines for the treatment of their animals, and general awareness to check the spread of disease is provided to Livestock owner’s at the doorstep.
Awareness campaign and round the clock surveillance of disease is being carried out in all the villages of Chandigarh. Fogging and fumigation is also being done regularly in the Dairy populated area.
Further, for the prevention of the disease, the department has now launched vaccination campaign to vaccinate all the healthy cattle in villages & Gaushalas of U.T. Chandigarh as per guidelines of Govt. of India, free of cost. 10,000 doses of vaccine has been procured by the department for the purpose. The vaccination will be carried out through veterinary institutions consisting of 04 Veterinary Hospitals and 09 Veterinary Sub Centres functioning in various villages of Chandigarh. 13 teams consisting of Veterinary staff shall undertake vaccination of healthy cattle from door to door under the supervision of Veterinary officer of the area.
The Department has already sent 17 blood samples to Regional Disease Diagnostic Centre (RDDL) and NIHSADL Bhopal for confirmation of disease.
