Bhubaneswar: The Urban Veterinary Hospital of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) in Bhubaneswar has so far treated 5,527 animals and birds for different ailments since it was set up a year back.
Giving details of the hospital’s list of treatment, Prof Srinibas Das of SOA’s Institute of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry (IVSAH) said 4,539 cases of general medicine, 47 cases of surgery and 941 cases of gynaecological disorders, specifically in cows and dogs, were handled during the year.
In addition, treatment was extended to 196 ornamental fish and 64 other animals including turtle, mouse, guinea pig, rabbit, owl and parrots.
Professors and experts in veterinary disciplines of medicine, surgery, pathology, gynaecology and obstetrics have been treating the animals and birds at the hospital, located at Shyampur near SUM Hospital, daily. This is also
the only hospital of its kind functioning in the private sector in the state, he said.
The pathological investigations conducted in the hospital included testing of 298 blood samples for blood cell count and blood protozoan parasites. Similarly 55 faecal samples from cows and buffaloes, four skin scrapings and 9 urine samples were examined and four biopsies conducted. Besides, genomic diagnosis by Polymerase Chain Reaction was conducted in respect of 20 blood samples, Prof Das said.
Of the 47 surgeries conducted, 24 were major operations including pinning of fractured bones in two dogs, correction of intussusceptions of large intestine in a dog, correction of inguinal, umbilical and vaginal herniation,
cryptochid, caesarian sections, ovario hysterectomy, excision of mammary tumours, urolethiasis and an excision of a tumour in urinary bladder.
Besides, Prof. Das said, vaccination in cows and dogs was carried out for prevention of various diseases. Altogether 320 cows were immunised against Lumpy Skin in an endemic and 228 dogs were administered anti-rabies vaccination.
Fertility check-up camps were also conducted by the hospital at four rural health camps held at Niali, Gop and Mendhasal, he said.
Prof Bramhadev Pattnaik, Dean of SOA’s Institute of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry (IVSAH), said the hospital, which is equipped with a laboratory, a functional operation theatre and other clinical gadgets, was inaugurated on April 28 last year by then minister for animal husbandry and veterinary services Arun Kumar Sahoo and SOA’s Founder President Prof Manojranjan Nayak.
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