Over 1,300 dogs vaccinated against rabies in Iganga

_________________ Forty-eight-year-old Stella Nankwanga recalls with pain the day she was ordered to pay sh870,000 by a Local Council 1 court after her German shepherd dog scratched a five-year-old boy who was passing by her home. Nankwanga said it was a chilly morning on September 12 last year when her housemaid opened the gate to allow a visitor to drive in, and her dog sneaked out, only to inflict scratches on the five-year-old boy who was standing just outside her house. "After hearing the boy raise an alarm, I rushed to see what was happening and realised that the dog had scratched him twice on his left leg but not bitten him," she said. She offered first aid by washing the scratches with disinfectant before wrapping a bandage around them.