Action Plans For Snake Bites, Rabies Launched In Karnataka

Action plans for Snakebite Prevention and Control (SAPSE) and for a Rabies Free Karnataka (SAPRE) launched in Karnataka under Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) to strengthen efforts to prevent avoidable deaths and ensure timely treatment especially in high-risk and rural areas. 

The action plans were launched by Minister of Health and Family Welfare



Dinesh Gundu Rao in Bengaluru on Friday.

Under the action plans, key initiatives are Rabies declared a notifiable disease which makes availability of free anti-Rabies Vaccine and Rabies Immunoglobulin at all government health facilities. 

A direction to private hospitals to maintain stocks and provide emergency care without advance payment.