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DEPARTMENTAL EVENT DIARY
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April
26: World Veterinary Day –observed every year on the last Saturday of
April –was celebrated here on the day with fervour. The main function
was held at the valley’s oldest veterinary campus in the heart of the
city on the Red Cross Road, under the aegis of Jammu And Kashmir
Veterinary Doctors’ Association where a large number of Para Vets and
engineering staff of Animal Husbandry Department also participated.
Dr
Bhupinder Singh, Director Animal Husbandry Kashmir presided over the
function while Dr A A Baba, CEO, Kashmir Livestock Development Board,
Dr N A Khan Former MD, KVMPCF, Dr FA Kaloo, Dy. Director, AH, Kashmir
and Dr Sheikh M Saleem President, JKVDA and shared the dais with him.
Dr
Saleem welcoming the participants urged the vets and Para vets to
rededicate them-selves to the cause of the humanity, as the veterinary
profession’s ultimate aim is human welfare adding that the vets were
now much sought after professionals in the world.
Speaking on the
occasion Dr Aejaz Ahmad Kamili, a former Disease Investigation Officer
in the department offered a token amount of Rs 5000 towards the best
veterinarian award to be instituted for honouring best vets and Para
vets annually on the eve of World Veterinary Day.
Dr N A Khan, in
his address recounted as to how livestock improvement was brought about
in the valley and the difficulties the vets and Para vets had to
encounter in educating the overwhelmingly illiterate rural folk about
the importance of cross breeding in improving livestock production and
productivity.
Dr A A Baba sought the cooperation of the vets and
Para vets in making the livestock development board a success. He urged
them to work in tandem with each other so as to achieve the objectives.
Dr FA Kaloo told the participants as to how diversified the role of
vets had become under the changed circumstances.
He said that
with more than two hundred fifty diseases having been identified as
zoonotic in nature the role of vets in human health had become more
important. Studies carried out across the globe during last twenty
years have proved that more than eighty percent of human infections
including the new and emerging diseases have had animal origin, added
Dr Kaloo.
He also identified scores of vets who were contributing
to human welfare in different positions including bureaucracy and even
police.
Dr Bhupinder Singh, Director AH Deptt. shared his
experiences in Kashmir with the participants and lauded the role of
vets and Para vets in transforming more than 70 percent of livestock in
Kashmir to high yielding hybrids. He urged the vets and Para vets to
work with more zest and zeal. Others who spoke on the occasion include
Drs Javaid A Khan, Dy Dir SHDeptt., AR Malik CAHO, Kupwara, GA Nahvi,
APMO, NDA Reshi, EO PW, M S Surma AIO and several Para Vet leaders.
Earlier Kaisar Ahmad Fazili opened the meet with recitations from Holy
Quaran. The association also presented a memento each to Drs N A Khan,
PK Abrol, AA Kamili and felicitated Dr Baba on his assumption of office
of CEO.
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