{"id":8311,"date":"2023-04-24T13:25:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T05:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=8311"},"modified":"2023-04-24T13:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T05:25:41","slug":"boehringer-ingelheim-animal-health-philippines-inc-partners-with-veterinary-quarantine-services-naia-for-rabies-month-awareness-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/boehringer-ingelheim-animal-health-philippines-inc-partners-with-veterinary-quarantine-services-naia-for-rabies-month-awareness-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health Philippines, Inc. partners with Veterinary Quarantine Services-NAIA for Rabies Month awareness campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Department of Health (DOH) regards rabies as a significant public health problem due to it being one of the most acutely fatal infections. It is responsible for 200-300 deaths of Filipinos annually.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To address this issue, pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim Philippines,\nthrough their Animal Health arm, collaborates with the government in observing\nMarch as Rabies Awareness Month (RAM). To encourage public participation,\nBoehringer Ingelheim has launched a RAM photo wall at NAIA Terminal 2 where pet\nowners can capture and share their photos on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Apple Nagera, Head of Business Segment &#8211; Pets for Boehringer\nIngelheim Animal Health Philippines, Inc. emphasized the significance of\nraising awareness about rabies and the importance of vaccination for both pets\nand their owners. \u201cOur RAM photo wall is an excellent opportunity for pet\nowners to showcase their love for their furry companions and to spread the word\nabout this serious health issue. By using the hashtags #RabiesFreePHand\n#FunWithPetsAwaitWhenWeVaccinate, pet owners can help raise awareness about the\nimportance of vaccination and show their support for our mission to make the\nPhilippines rabies-free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boehringer\nIngelheim Animal Health Philippines, Inc. is committed to its partnership with\nthe National Rabies Prevention and Control Program (NRPCP) and its attached\nagencies, the Department of Agriculture &#8211; Bureau of Animal Industry (DA-BAI),\nthe Department of Health (DOH), the Department of the Interior and Local\nGovernment (DILG), and the Department of Education (DepEd) in achieving the\nprogram aim of \u201cRabies-free <em>na pusa&#8217;t aso, kaligtasan ng pamilyang Pilipino<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To join the\ncampaign, participants can\nhave their photo(s) taken with the RAM Photo Wall as the backdrop. Post it on\ntheir Facebook (FB) Wall with a caption on how they can help make the\nPhilippines Rabies Free. The participants are reminded to set their posts to\n\u201cPublic\u201d and to tag the FB pages of Boehringer Ingelheim Pets PH and the\nVeterinary Quarantine Services \u2013 NAIA, while using the hashtags #RabiesFreePH\nand #FunWithPetsAwaitWhenWeVaccinate. Ten (10) posts with the most positive\nreactions will be chosen per week throughout March, making a total of 40 lucky\nwinners who will receive a travel essential kit for their pets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippines is one of the top 10 countries worldwide with a rabies\nproblem.&nbsp; Recent statistics from the\nBureau of Animal Industry (BAI) notes the increase of rabies cases in the\ncountry, from 1,038 in 2021 to 1,160 in 2022.&nbsp;\nHuman rabies also showed a rise, from 228 in 2021 to 305 cases in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>oehringer Ingelheim Philippines, through their Animal Health arm, collaborates with the government in observing March as Rabies Awareness Month (RAM). To encourage public participation, Boehringer Ingelheim has launched a RAM photo wall at NAIA Terminal 2 where pet owners can capture and share their photos on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,1274,20,1276],"class_list":["post-8311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-health","tag-rabies","tag-wellness","tag-world-rabies-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8313,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions\/8313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}