On August 6, Argentina celebrates the Veterinary Doctor’s Day, the reason for such a celebration arose in a city of Greater Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century. It was in 1883, when Julio Argentino Roca’s first presidency was in the middle of the country, that in the city of Lomas de Zamora (founded in 1864 by Esteban Adrogué) the cornerstone of the collegiate career of the veterinary doctor was laid.
That August 6, the Santa Catalina Agronomic Veterinary Institute was inaugurated, geographically located on a property in the town of Llavallol. But a hundred years had to pass since that founding act for the then president Raúl Alfonsín to sign a decree in 1983, shortly following taking office, which institutionalized the Day of the Veterinary Doctor in Argentina on that date.
That first school of higher veterinary studies in the country, which in 1890 moved to At payment, ended up becoming the Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine. That first course of the career began with 18 students enrolled to take the entrance exam.
Since Radio Miter Mar del Plata (FM 103.7) spoke with the veterinarian, Eduardo Mateos (MP 6469), regarding the current importance of this profession: “I dedicate myself to anesthesia and pain medicine. In general, the profession takes us a long time, whenever we return home we have to be attentive to patients and continue to inform ourselves. The profession has grown exponentially, we are hand in hand with human medicine”.
He also commented that “there are exotic animal specialists, in my case I work with dogs and cats, but I got to work with a team of Argentina, United States and Uruguay with sea lions and wild elephant seals. This group of researchers needed a veterinarian to be able to place GPS on them, study them and see how they behave”.
On the other hand, he reported: “Some diseases have an impact on humans, that is why the World Health Organization is fighting for a single Medicine. Animals are part of the family and when something happens to them, people suffer psychologically and can also be infected with other pathologies”.
With information from Clarin
