Sushil Salam, Kanker. A serious health crisis has emerged in Vivekanand Nagar village of Koylibeda block of the district. After consuming the prasad of Satyanarayan puja here, the villagers are at risk of rabies infection and people are getting vaccinated.
Actually, on June 01, Satyanarayan Puja was organized at the house of a villager in Vivekanand Nagar village. In which Sinni Prasad was made from raw cow milk. Villagers attended that puja and ate the Prasad. But the milk of the two cows used to make Sinni Prasad, both of them were bitten by mad dogs of the village. When those two cows die about 90 days after Satyanarayan Puja, the owners of the cows go to the hospital and secretly get the rabies vaccine. But when this news gradually spreads in the whole village, the villagers, fearing rabies infection by eating the Prasad made from the milk of those cows, informed the health department officer about the entire incident and demanded rabies vaccination in the village.
After which, seeing the seriousness of the matter, a team of the health department has been sent to Vivekanand Nagar village for vaccination. So far, more than 150 villagers have been given rabies vaccine. Also, information about all the people who participated in that Satyanarayan puja is being collected from the villagers.