Blantyre City Mass

Vaccination Drive

Year 3 Report

22nd April 2017 24th May 2017

2017 Plan

Week 1

22nd –26th April

Week 2

29th April—3rd

May

Week 3

12th—17th May

Week 4

20th—24th May

44 Static Point vaccination sites across the city of Blantyre.

Working ward by ward from the west of the city to the east of the city.

The same successful vaccination strategy employed since 2015 using a combination of static points and

door-to-door vaccinations was used this year.

Education teams precede the vaccination teams using a combination of community sensitisation and

school lessons to teach people and children about rabies and to advertise the upcoming vaccination

campaign.

Week 1

8,850 Dogs Vaccinated

Static Points

Date Static Point Location 2015 2016 Dogs 17 Total 17

Sat 22nd April 2017

Chemusa Assemblies pvt school 582 552 436 506

Chileka Roundabout 471 755 861 912

Chirimba PS 814 524 511 611

Mbayani PS 774 576 596 664

Namatete PS 499 670 484 504

Total 3140 3077 2888 3197

Sun 23rd April 2017

9d 273 377 308 373

Catholic Institute (CI) PS 529 808 678 764

Mulunguzi PS 645 699 587 628

Namasimba PS 306 809 686 781

Namiwawa PS 116 117 160 167

Samaritan trust 305 312 435 465

St James catholic PS (Chilomoni) 473 534 609 670

Total 2647 3656 3463 3848

24th to 26th April 2017 4,524 dogs were entered by 22 sub-teams walking door-to-door. This map shows every dog and cat entered on the Mission Rabies App across 3 walking days, illustrated by different colour dots for each day.

Some area’s still remain to

be covered by door-to-door

vaccination teams. These

shall be covered in

subsequent weeks.

Week 2

8,908 Dogs vaccinated

Static Points

Date Static Point Location 2015 2016 Dogs 17 Total 17

Sat 29th April 2017

Chitawira PS 494 363 381 413

Kapeni Demo School 890 1099 1199 1339

Nkolokoti PS 1370 1108 1047 1151

Zingwangwa LEA school 729 634 583 670

Total 3483 3204 3210 3573

Sun 30th April 2017

Chilobwe police station 465 872 674 736

Chinchiri PS 81 109 85 106

Kachere Market 307 267 251 294

Kanjedza PS 506 624 572 637

Makhetha PS 281 446 446 492

Manja PS 564 644 557 589

Namame school 544 621 497 568

St Kizito PS 138 170 177 198

Total 2886 3753 3259 3620

In addition the teams vaccinated 1,166 cats in the first week

From 1st to 3rd May 2017 2,447 dogs were vaccinated by

the teams going door to door. The teams worked

incredibly hard and succeeded in covering all the high

population

density areas

near the week

2 static point

sites.

1,156 cats were vaccinated at static points and on door to

door work in week 2.

Week 3

8,546 Dogs vaccinated

static Points

Date Static Point Location 2015 2016 Dogs 17 Total 17

Sat 13th May 2017

Makata PS 11498 1095 995 1184

Nanjiriri PS 113 1041 911 999

Ndirande Hill PS 423 441 419 479

Nyambadwe PS 767 706 767 839

South Lunzu CDSS 493 735 471 507

Total 13294 4018 3563 4008

Sun 14th May 2017

Kameza PS 272 240 185 230

Namalimwe PS 847 889 591 681

Namilango PS 709 699 605 689

South Lunzu PS 497 411 585 646

Makata day 2 192 324 412

Nanjiriri PS day 2 95 147 160

Total 2325 2526 2437 2818

An additional 2,546 dogs were vaccinated by the

teams going door to door and saw 2795 already

vaccinated dogs. The

teams completed

the areas quickly and

were able to cover

some of the area’s

missed in week 1.

Week 4

7,774 Dogs vaccinated

Static Points

Date Static Point Location 2015 2016 Dogs 17 Total 17

Sat 20th May 2017

Bangwe Catholic School 1017 799 759 862

Chigumula PS 389 557 544 611

Chisombezi PS 257 289 312 349

Mapanga 224 119 153 177

Misesa PS 394 416 733 778

Mpingwe PS 458 536 502 536

Namatapa PS 550 505 431 489

Total 3289 3221 3434 3802

Sun 21st May 2017

Bangwe CCAP school 447 473 646 768

Chigumula clinic 240 288 327 398

Mzamba PS 196 161 180 232

Naizi (Namyango) PS 866 1060 930 975

Bangwe Catholic School 166 205

Total 1749 1982 2249 2578

The green area in this

map acted as a trial site for static point only

vaccinations. There was no door to door work

in this area.

The teams successfully completed the walking

zones that remained from previous weeks. An

additional 1982 dogs were vaccinated and

3,586 data points entered.

Overview

This is slightly fewer vaccines than in previous years but there several

reasons why this may have occurred

1)Fewer people attending static point vaccinations

2) An area of the city was used as a trial location for static point

vaccinations only. There was no door to door vaccinations in these

areas. Therefore, several dogs did not receive a vaccination and this

would lower the total number of vaccines delivered

3) The dog population is smaller

Why less dogs this year?

We have vaccinated slightly less dogs this year compared to last year.

One area of the city was used as a trial site for static point only vaccinations and teams didn’t

go door to door in these areas. This will have reduced the number of dogs vaccinated.

Additionally, there may be fewer dogs or people aren’t bringing their dogs for vaccination. This

year we have seen less puppies and more neutered animals compared to last year. This is

testament to the hard work of the WVS and BSPCA teams. The reason is likely due to a

combination of these factors.

2016 2017

% puppies 38.11% 32.61%

% neutered adult 23.09% 32.07%

% neutered

female 8.01% 12.02%

% neutered male 34.79% 44.40%

Education

Since the beginning of April, when the citywide education drive started 64,382 children were

educated in 26 public schools. 432 teachers were also present during these lessons and they

will be able to answer questions in the future and could refresh the information given to the

pupils later on.

The teams are doing an amazing job being out spreading the word about our work every day.

On days during the school holidays or when exams are held the education officers are visiting

public places and attend meetings arranged by ward councilors to talk to adults about the

dangers of rabies and to advertise the static vaccination points. When there are no meetings

they just move around in vehicles and on foot, delivering loudspeaker announcements or just

chatting to people on the streets or when they are out working in the field.

137,635 children educated

53 schools

3,086 teachers educated

Sensitisation

WVS / Mission Rabies Synergy

The synergistic work between the Mission Rabies vaccination teams and the WVS surgical team

is continuing to prove to be a brilliant team work and it has been very motivating for the staff

members and volunteers that so many injured dogs they come across cane be helped straight

away.

During weekends the WVS team has been setting up field clinics at primary schools and

severely injured dogs are taken there straight away for surgery or treatment. Non emergency

cases are either taken to the BSPCA/WVS clinic for treatment during the following days or the

owners are asked to bring their dog there during the next week.

During the week, when the MR teams are walking door to door they are contacting Dagmar and

Jo in the office who are then asking Difence to ring the owner of the dog, who is then arranging

pick up of the animal, depending on the severity of the injury.

The most common injuries during the first two weeks were broken legs requiring amputations

(five legs have been amputated so far), severe wounds (one was a puppy which head was sliced

open by a Machete) and many TVTs (some very severe). The TVTs are responding very well to

Vincristine and we are seeing big improvements even after the first injections when they are

coming back one week after.

We have also treated several dogs which were neutered last year for other injuries and it’s nice

to see that the abdominal tattoos are very well visible one year after they were done.

374 Dogs sterilised in 10 days! 8 leg amputations, 5

enucleations.

Dogs that have benefitted from the

help of WVS/BSPC A clinic