IN a bid to complement the efforts of the school authority in the campaign against rabies disease, the department of Animal Health Technology, Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology (FCAH&PT), on Monday took the campaign around neighbouring communities on the campus.
Speaking shortly after the programme, Head of Department, Dr Ifeoluwa Akanbi, noted that: ”Today, we are having a rabies awareness outreach within our community on campus. We have gone round five communities today. We have been to the Federal College of Agriculture (FCA), Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), the junior staff quarters, IAR&T staff school and of our own FCAH&PT.
“So, what we have done today is creating awareness physically and also donating a banner bearing necessary information about rabies disease to each of these communities.
“The essence of the awareness is that we do not want it to be a one-day thing as it is possible for people to forget. And that is why we went further to donate the banner to the communities and leaders of these communities have promised to hang the banner in strategic places so that members of the communities and visitors will be able to have access to the information are sharing.”
Dean, School of Animal Health, FCAH&PT, Dr Jolade Aderonke Sansi in her remarks said:”A lot of people know about rabies but they do not know how to be proactive in preventing this disease so that is what the awareness is all about.
“Rabies has no cure and the best thing we can do about it is to be proactive about preventing it. You can only prevent what you are aware of, without awareness there is no how to be proactive about the prevention.
“So that is what the campaign is all about, to educate people who are not necessarily literate in their language to tell them what rabies is all about. You do not have to keep a dog if know you cannot take good care of that dog. Because if you do not take care of that dog, it poses not only a threat to you the owner and your family, it poses a threat to the entire environment so that is what this awareness is all about.”
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