National Rabies Control programme

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

 

WHAT

Under the National Rabies Control programme (NRCP) funds are not provided for the procurement of Anti- Rabies vaccine (ARV).

• Funds under NRCP are only provided for training, surveillance, laboratory strengthening and advocacy etc.
• However, for rabies vaccination all the states/UTs have been communicated to include Anti- Rabies vaccine (ARV) and Anti Rabies serum ( ARS ) under essential drug list and to undertake the procurement of ARV and ARS under National Free Drug service initiative under National Health Mission.
• There is a rabies elimination drive by 2030 globally, the significant demand of Anti Rabies Vaccine and Serum from the neighboring courtiers like Myanmar, Malaysia and the Philippines and these countries are importing vaccines from India.
• Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) was directed to monitor the pharmaceutical firms producing ARV for ensuring regular supply of ARV to the States.

NATIONAL RABIES CONTROL PROGRAMME

• Rabies is an acute viral disease that causes fatal encephalomyelitis in virtually all the warm-blooded animals including humans.
• The virus is found in wild and some domestic animals, and is transmitted to other animals and to humans through their saliva (following bites, scratches, licks on broken skin and mucous membrane). In India, dogs are responsible for about 97% of human rabies, followed by cats (2%), and others (1%).
• The disease is invariably fatal and perhaps the most painful and dreadful of all communicable diseases in which the sick person is tormented at the same time with thirst and fear of water (hydrophobia).

 

National Centre for Disease Control (formerly National Institute of Communicable Diseases), Delhi, WHO Collaborating Centre for Rabies Epidemiology, organized an expert consultation in 2002 to formulate national guidelines for rabies prophylaxis to bring out uniformity in post-exposure prophylaxis practices.

Under the 12 five-year plan, National Rabies Control Programme (NRCP) has been approved. The NRCP has both human and animal health components.

Human Component is being implemented in all the states & UTs. National Centre for the Diseases control is the nodal agency for the Human Component of the program.

Animal Component is being pilot tested in the Haryana & Chennai. The Animal Welfare Board of India, Ministry of Environment & Forests is the Nodal agency for the Animal Component of the program.

 

 

DRUG CONTROLLER GENERAL OF INDIA

• DCGI is a department of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization of the India government.
• It is responsible for approval of licences of specified categories of drugs such as blood and blood products, IV fluids, vaccines, and sera in India.
• Drug Controller General of India, comes under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
• DCGI sets standards for manufacturing, sales, import, and distribution of drugs in India.

 

Source: PIB

 

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