Vaccination center

During the week of celebration of the World Day to fight against rabies in Tunisia, the Tunisian Authority and the OIE organised a workshop to discuss the new strategy to control rabies. In this context, I was involved and actively contributed by presenting on 25 September 2017 the strategy of the city of Tunis for controlling the stray dogs and fight against rabies. On 27 and 28 September an additional workshop was organised by the Municipality of Tunis (directorate of the protection of the urban environment) and OIE with the participation of the Ministry of Agriculture with the aim of training personnel to capture aggressive stray dogs. This initiative actually started in May 2017 with a first workshop.

Finally, on 30 September and 1st October, the vaccination center was inaugurated officially by the Governor of Tunis, the OIE Representative and the CVO of Tunisia in order to vaccinate free of charge for domestic dogs and cats. The same center conducts vaccination and sterilisation for stray dogs.

The Governor of Tunis appreciated the initiative and asked to share this action with other Tunisian municipalities.

A total of 535 dogs and cats were vaccinated during the two-day and an awareness campaign (leaflets and videos) was done for the citizens about the measures and behavior to undertake after a bite from dogs.

The manifestation was attended by veterinary students of IVSA (International Veterinary Student Association), the veterinarians from the municipality of Tunis and Ministry of Agriculture as well as professors from the veterinary school of Tunis.

Several media were present since the dissemination of the information is crucial to raise awareness of citizens about the threat of rabies and on the importance of sterilizing stray dogs instead of killing them. A total of 160 dogs were sterilized, vaccinated and dewormed during that period.

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Vaccination center
Vaccination center
Vaccination center
Vaccination center
Sterilisation
Sterilisation
Vaccination center
Vaccination center
Vaccination center