nagpur internal wrangling between nmc officials and an ngo apparently cost the life of a stray dog in city on thursday the incident also raised questions about how petty could nmc officials get in settling personal scores the stray dog at utthan nagar on gorewada road could have been saved if the hospitalcumambulance had reached on time people for animals pfa a ngo entrusted with job of treating stray animals alleged nmc officials intentionally did not allow the ambulance to settle scores with them the ambulance was launched in april 2011 in association with pfa on thursday morning an animal rights activist amit santra spotted an ailing dog he informed the nmcs health department but they failed to depute anyone santra then informed pfa secretary karishma galani who received another call about an injured dog at zingabai takli as per normal procedure galani told van driver rupesh to reach both the spots when the vehicle did not turn up till 10 am she again called rupesh who informed her that assistant workshop inspector v s mankar had prevented him from taking the ambulance out from the workshop mankar advised him to keep it parked at workshop on great nag road for four days and also asked the driver to switch off his mobile phone she claimed an upset galani then approached civic chief shyam wardhane in a memorandum to wardhane she demanded an inquiry against the officer responsible for death of animal the dog at utthan nagar could have been saved if ambulance had reached on time the insensitivity of nmc official led to the death of the stray dog alleged galani the ambulance could proceed only after intervention of municipal commissioner mankar however denied galanis charges and said the ambulance reached late due to unavailability of driver deputy director health nmc milind ganvir said he was not aware of the issue galani said pfa often received phone calls from animal lovers and ngos seeking help for treatment of injured or sick animals on many occasions people who have pets also call for vehicles to take injured or ill animals to veterinary hospitals noncooperation from the civic body had resulted in it not serving the purpose she alleged she also charged that officials of health department were creating hurdles for them owing to ulterior motives around 80000 stray dogs and over 9000 cattle exist in the city animal lovers here expressed displeasure over the nmcs lackadaisical attitude towards the stray animals