2023-04-29 20:05:00
In compliance with the strategies of Governor Ricardo Gallardo Cardona and his commitment to animal welfare, the MVZ Fanny Alejandra Montoya Sierra, Head of the Department of Zoonoses of the Health Services, within the framework of the celebration of World Veterinary Day, reported that So far this year, sterilization campaigns have been carried out in the towns of Escalerillas, Progreso and La Tinaja, in addition to more than three thousand sterilizations at the Rabies and Other Zoonoses Control Center.
Training on rabies has also been given at the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (UASLP) to students and professors, in addition to training in sterilizations in the municipalities of Cd. Fernández and Rioverde, and in the month of June, in agreement with the Association Civil, Estancia for the abandoned dog, 500 animals will be sterilized, including dogs and cats, after registering with said association.
The head of the Zoonosis department said that veterinarians, whether in administration, teaching, research, production of food of animal origin and care for small species, have a fundamental responsibility for the prevention and control of pathogens. zoonotic, in this way the health of animals becomes a vital axis for the care of public health.
Those who are dedicated to veterinary medicine, he indicated, not only take care of animal health, they are health professionals and their work has a transcendental approach, about 75% of emerging human diseases in recent decades have originated in animals and COVID-19. 19 is not oblivious to this reality, so animal, human and environmental health are interrelated, it is one.
Celebrating the doctors and veterinarians, considered that it is important to recognize their work and contribution to public health, since they act in the prevention of zoonotic diseases such as Rabies, Brucellosis, Leptospirosis, Rickettsiosis or Parasitosis, among others, that if they do not are treated will end up making humans sick through interaction with animals, even causing death.
Montoya Sierra highlighted the coordinated work of the Health Services with institutions from the health, livestock and municipal sectors, which allowed for rabies prevention actions to be carried out in 2022, where a total of 520,000 dogs and cats were vaccinated and almost sterilized. 25 thousand, equivalent to 100% of what was programmed.
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