Veterinary Service kills dog after biting class one pupil to death

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• Solomon 8 years ago

  A similar unfortunate incident happened in Techiman last week and the person is still battling for his life in the hospital. Dog owners should ensure that they vaccinate them against rabies infection in order to ensure the sa ...
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  A similar unfortunate incident happened in Techiman last week and the person is still battling for his life in the hospital. Dog owners should ensure that they vaccinate them against rabies infection in order to ensure the safety of other people.

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• Unknown 8 years ago

  That dog is not an Alsatian and should.have been put down the ssme day it bit the lad.

  That dog is not an Alsatian and should.have been put down the ssme day it bit the lad.

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• Dr. Jeffery Elorm Akortia 8 years ago

  There are guidelines to what we do, we just don't take our own decision like that.

  There are guidelines to what we do, we just don't take our own decision like that.

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• Lj 8 years ago

  This is very good job done. Those keeping useless, ugly, and overstarved dogs in Ghana must be tasked to pay daily tax because they mostly don't feed dogs well. So, dogs are seen in streets, at refuge dumps, and all odd place ...
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  This is very good job done. Those keeping useless, ugly, and overstarved dogs in Ghana must be tasked to pay daily tax because they mostly don't feed dogs well. So, dogs are seen in streets, at refuge dumps, and all odd places in search of waste food on the ground, from which dogs can acquire various zoonotic pathogens. It is really terrible in Ghana. I wish the yet-to-be-enacted law bans moving dogs without supervision in streets. What a useless system we have there, despite all kinds of knowledge, educations, etc.!

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• Onipa Ba 8 years ago

  Even if there are vaccines, where are the men
  to carry out mass vaccination in the
  hinterlands where rabies is endemic? The
  manner at which GoG is handling veterinary
  profession in Ghana is very appalling. The very
  few
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  Even if there are vaccines, where are the men
  to carry out mass vaccination in the
  hinterlands where rabies is endemic? The
  manner at which GoG is handling veterinary
  profession in Ghana is very appalling. The very
  few
  professionals trained on the country's
  resources are at home. Why won't we
  witness the recent incidents?
  Let us not forget that most of slaughter
  facilities in the country lack veterinary staff to
  inspect meat and meat products. Quarantine
  stations are deserted for lack of vets giving
  rise to transboundary diseases communicable
  from animals to man. The activities of quacks
  have resulted antimicrobial resistance in
  human bodies making healing impossible
  whenever we visit hospitals. Cancer is of no
  exception. 75% of diseases in man originates
  from animals. Anthrax, recent incidence of
  tuberculosis in Ghanaians, brucellosis is
  rendering most Ghanaians sterile and barren.
  All kinds of worm infestations, salmonella
  typhoid, weil's disease and whole lot. Yet
  Government of Ghana has paid a death ear to
  veterinary services in Ghana in recent times.
  Most of the huge tonnage of imported meats
  and meat products at our ports and harbours
  go unchecked for lack of vets. Where do we
  stand as people of this sovereign state?
  Meanwhile technical hands trained by the
  country's only college on the country's
  resources are homed with their expertise.

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• Kwaku gh 8 years ago

  Well said onipa ba. If the Veterinary services in Ghana is not taking seriously, we'll keep loosing the battle on infectious diseases

  Well said onipa ba. If the Veterinary services in Ghana is not taking seriously, we'll keep loosing the battle on infectious diseases

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• concerned Dog lover 8 years ago

  this act of putting the dog down is good
  but it not the first-time...
  it been down severally

  this act of putting the dog down is good
  but it not the first-time...
  it been down severally

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• Pk 8 years ago

  The title of this piece is so grammatically wrong! English is not our first language, but that is no good reason for ghanaweb to be so careless. It's disgraceful !

  The title of this piece is so grammatically wrong! English is not our first language, but that is no good reason for ghanaweb to be so careless. It's disgraceful !

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• Dr. Jeffery Elorm Akortia 8 years ago

  "After the exercise, Dr Simon Gbene, the Acting Director of the Service in the Western region noted that this is the first time Ghana has destroyed an animal through Euthanasia though it is very common in the Western countrie ...
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  "After the exercise, Dr Simon Gbene, the Acting Director of the Service in the Western region noted that this is the first time Ghana has destroyed an animal through Euthanasia though it is very common in the Western countries" This statement is so not true. Witnessed so many euthanasia whiles in Veterinary School, KNUST so this can't be its first time in Ghana.

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• Gadafi 8 years ago

  Every dog that kill a human being in western world is put to death . It doesn't go back to its owner.

  Every dog that kill a human being in western world is put to death . It doesn't go back to its owner.

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