Woman bitten by stray dog in Dashmesh Nagar

Charanjit Singh Teja
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, July 30
A stray dog bit a woman in Dashmesh Nagar near Jorra Fatak on Monday morning. The victim has been identified as Suman, a resident of Dashmesh Nagar. The victim said that she was heading to the bus stand along with her son early in the morning. “We were going to attend a marriage in Himachal Pradesh. I was riding pillion on my son’s scooter. We left our house around 5.30 am and entered the next street. A number of stray dogs were there. These stray dogs chased our scooter and one of them held my leg in his jaw. It was a painful experience as the dog did not let go and kept running behind the scooter,” said Suman.
After hearing Sushma’s screams, her son stopped the scooter and the dogs ran away. She was rushed to a private hospital where doctors gave her injections.

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MC’s efforts not showing results

• Around 15 dog-bite cases are being reported at the Anti-Rabies Clinic in Government Medical College here on a daily basis.
• The MC claimed that they have been sterilising 50 dogs daily and target to sterilise 20,000 dogs to curb the population of strays.

The area residents alleged that more than 20 dogs have been roaming around in the streets of Dashmesh Nagar. There are some residents who regularly feed the stray dogs which encourages them, they said.
It is worth mentioning here that around 15 dog-bite cases are being reported at the Anti-Rabies Clinic in Government Medical College here on a daily basis. Meanwhile, the Municipal Corporation claimed that they have been sterilising 50 dogs daily and target to sterilise 20,000 dogs to curb the population of strays. The MC hired Animal Welfare Charitable Trust, an NGO, in August 2023 and established an Animal Birth Control Centre at Naraingarh in Chheharta area and a sterilisation centre at Fatehgarh Shukarchak village on the outskirts of the city. The dog sterilisation operations are being carried out at both the centres. The MC claimed that over 10,000 dogs have been sterilised in past years but no decline in the birth rate of stray dogs has been reported in the city so far.