New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday, September 28, launched a "National Action Plan for Dog Mediated Rabies Elimination from India by 2030" and said that we have to win the fight against rabies by 2030.

During the launch event of the National Action Plan for Dog Mediated Rabies Elimination from India by 2030, Mandaviya said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is also working on reducing the cost of rabies vaccines.

We have to win the fight against rabies by 2030. It should be a comprehensive endeavour of the Health Ministry and Animal Husbandry Ministry, we should also include AYUSH Ministry, the Health Minster said. Mandaviya further said, "Today, as people move from one place to another, the virus also goes with them. Many diseases have increased, many diseases have decreased, if only the Ministry of Health will try, the result will not come, we have to make efforts together."

He went on to say, that we are moving forward in ending Tuberculosis because an ecosystem has been created to end it. Similarly, for rabies, we have to campaign aggressively. Ministry of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar and Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala were also present during the launch event.

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