"Besides being a moral imperative of Welfare State, primary health structure is a necessary pre-condition for sustainable development." Analyze.
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Use rabies to show that preventable deaths persist where primary health delivery is weak, and that assured local access to treatment is a basic precondition.
- Rabies is almost always fatal once symptoms appear but preventable with prompt post-exposure prophylaxis; India accounts for about 36% of roughly 59,000 deaths a year worldwide.
- Point out that India's challenge is keeping vaccines and immunoglobulin available at every health centre while scaling dog vaccination under the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023.
- Bhutan's WHO-validated elimination (4 September 2026) shows the payoff of linking primary health care with veterinary services under a One Health approach.
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