At this time of crisis, doctors, nurses, health workers, sanitation workers, police, media personnel and all the persons providing essential services are being treated as demigods. But the hard work of many veterinary doctors and staffs goes unrecognised.
The veterinarians are delivering essential services uninerruptedly during the current lockdown period. Livestock farmers and the society are benefiting by their act.
All the veterinary hospitals and dispensaries are open now, working with their full strength. Besides, veterinary health care, immunisation and artificial insemination; the veterinarians frequently detour in order to provide services at the farmers’ doorstep.
Veterinarians play the pivotal role in providing livelihood to the rural populace. They add to the state’s GSDP by contributing towards production of milk, meat and egg. Had it not been the veterinarians, it would have been very difficult for us to get animal protein in form of these nutritious foodstuffs.
Most importantly, they work as agents of public health. It’s only for the veterinarians, dreaded zoonotic diseases like anthrax, rabies, bird flu, swine flu, Japanese Encephalitis etc. are under control. The veterinarians of the state have done a laudable job in total control of the bird flu.
In the current pandemic, the veterinarians are toiling hard to provide animal healthcare. The Union Government had issued guidelines to get the veterinarians ready for the job. It had allowed three of the veterinary institutions in the country to go for COVID 19 tests.
Veterinarians should get due weight and recognition for their work towards maintaining public health, particularly during this time of crisis, viewed many.