Rabies kill thousands of globally every year and India remains one of the worst affected. Now the center has asked the Faculty of Medicine and the Hospital to take the lead in prevention, supervision and awareness, with a nationwide directive within the National A rabric control program (NRCP).
In comprehensive counseling issued on 16 September 2025, through the National Medical Commission (NMC) and the Ministry of Health and Family Care (MoHFW), it ordered all medical faculties and institutions to lead this 100% fatal but from preventing illnesses. The aim of this step is to strengthen NRCP by focusing on training, ensuring the availability of drugs and expanding the supervision and public awareness.
Mint explains what the new directives mean for the Indian long -term strategy of rabies.
Why did the government issue this directive?
The reported cases of dog bites increased from 2.2 million in 2022 to 3.05 million in 2023 and 3.7 million in 2024. Only in January 2025 only more than 400,000 cases were recorded.
Human death also increased from 21 in 2022 to 54 in 2024, according to one death in January 2025 according to fishing, animal breeding and ministry of dairy (MOFahd).
In order to face this growing threat, guidelines have been issued. Counseling is part of the National Action Plan for eliminating rabies mediated by the dog by 2030 (voř), the strategic goal of the jointly initiated MoHFW and MOFHHD. Medical Faculty and Institutions play an important role in ensuring timely cases of cases, supervision and awareness of the community that are necessary to achieve this national goal.
What do medical faculties and hospitals expect?
NMC has directed institutions to:
Why is supervision and announcement critical?
Supervision and reporting are essential because the health authorities provide real -time visibility in cases of bite of animals and rabies. Reserved register ABE and timely IPIP recording helps monitor outbreaks, mark high -risk areas and lead vaccines and sera. Without precise data, efforts to prevent and respond, they risk being delayed or incorrectly directed.
What does it mean for the pharmaceutical industry?
The demand for vaccines and immunoglobulins increases. Pharmaceutical companies must strengthen their production capacity, ensure critical raw materials and improve distribution to suit increased need.
This is in line with the strategic objectives of companies such as Bharat Serums and Vaccines (BSV), which work on the support of the Indian goal of “zero after 30” by supplying these drugs to public and private health systems and hospitals.
Zero by 30 is an Indian commitment within the global initiative led by the WHO to remove the death of human rabies by the dog by 2030.
What about the Supreme Court’s decision on stray dogs?
The recent Indian court, which ruled on the management of vicious dogs, has undergone a significant change after facing the protests of groups in the field of good life conditions of animals such as Peta. Initially, the bench ordered the civic bodies to limit all stray dogs in shelters without releasing them.
In a revised decision on 22nd August 2025, however, the larger bench ordered that stray dogs must be sterilized and vaccinated and then released back to their original locations. The new order was appreciated by organizations for good living conditions of animals as a humane and scientifically supported approach to the control of the population.
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