Creation of a general authority for livestock, the most prominent of the demands of the participants in the conference of the Veterinarians Association

Rural Damascus - SANA

The demands of the veterinarians participating in the union’s annual general conference focused on the importance of creating a general authority for livestock, restoring the deficiency, increasing compensation for risks and the nature of work and specialization due to the exposure of veterinarians to common diseases and studying the possibility of appointing veterinarians in ministries and public institutions, especially those in which there are special staff for this profession.

During the conference held today at the Sahara Tourism Complex under the slogan “Securing safe food and protecting livestock is a national duty”, a number of participants stressed to SANA the importance of highlighting the role of veterinarians and raising awareness of their work related to preserving public health by preventing animal and common diseases or diseases. The potential for food and preventing its spread through the development of control policies to secure food of safe and healthy animal origin.

Dr. Sati 'as a sweeper from the Homs branch of the Veterinarians Syndicate stated that the conference provides an opportunity to stand and constitutes an opportunity to reach decisions that serve the veterinary medicine sector, pointing to the need for concerted efforts to work on solving the difficulties that hinder the profession, especially that the sector, like other sectors, has been affected by the war and the unjust siege on Syria.

From the Quneitra branch, Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim stressed the need to secure the greater part of livestock needs from free preventive vaccines and work to find a program to preserve the genetic assets of all animal species and restore the herds, especially cattle and Awassi sheep, and reproduce in many veterinary pharmaceutical industries.

For his part, Veterinary Doctor Abdullah Al-Hayek from the Council of the Veterinarian Syndicate in Aleppo called for joint work between veterinarians and agricultural engineers to improve the level of veterinary medicine in the Aleppo governorate and help breeders and farmers to raise the level of better what contributes to securing the citizens' needs of meat.

While Dr. Abdulaziz Shomal, head of the Hama branch of the Veterinarians Syndicate, called for plans for the Syndicate to be implemented in the next stage, which is to secure food safety by monitoring livestock products of meat and milk and securing them at reasonable and appropriate prices for the citizen, stressing the importance of importing cows and securing safe, sound and low-price feed, especially for poultry. .

Dr. Abdul Sattar Al-Sayed, Secretary of the Veterinarians’s Retirement Treasury, indicated that the Treasury has provided members with personal and in-kind loans over the past years to contribute to the reconstruction and insurance of veterinary clinics, where loans were granted to veterinarians to help them in their work, and the value of the grant reached 470 million Syrian pounds to doctors and their families in various Governorates and in-kind loans up to 50 million Syrian pounds to secure ico equipment and veterinary clinic supplies.

In turn, the head of the Veterinarians Syndicate, Dr. Samir Ismail, indicated that the union has completed a number of investment projects to support veterinarians, improve the economic reality and assist livestock breeders, including a veterinary medicine laboratory that includes 7 production lines in the industrial city of Adra indicating that there is a proposal to establish special farms for the union to raise Awassi sheep and goats. Al-Shami and its distribution to farmers after securing the lands in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform.

Director of Veterinary Medicines at the Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Ziyad Nammour called on veterinarians to present new ideas and proposals to develop and expand the horizons of the livestock sector, indicating that this sector was exposed during the years of the terrorist war on Syria to many sabotage acts and thus a loss in production and supplies, and it is the duty of veterinarians during the next phase Coordination between the Doctors Syndicate and the Ministry to restore this sector and restore it to its glory.

Bushra Barhoum-Ghossoub Abboud