Animal breed improvement Bihar: With the opening of new hospitals, animal farmers will not have to wander. file photo
Prakash Kumar, Jagran, Samastipur. Samastipur veterinary hospital: The Animal Husbandry Department has taken important initiatives to strengthen animal husbandry in Samastipur district and to provide better medical facilities to animals in rural areas. A total of eight new first class veterinary hospitals will be opened one by one in eight blocks of the district. For this, panchayats have been selected and the land related report has been sent to the headquarters through the District Magistrate.
The objective of this scheme of the Animal Husbandry Department is not limited to treatment only, but also to improve the breed of animals and solve problems like infertility. With the opening of new hospitals, animal farmers will not have to wander far and wide for treatment and the death rate of animals will also reduce due to timely treatment.
At present 40 veterinary hospitals are operating in the district, while the total number of animals is about 11.45 lakh. These include about 5.17 lakh cows, 1.89 lakh buffaloes, 4.34 lakh goats, 1522 sheep and 2330 pigs. Considering the need of medical facilities in proportion to the number of animals, the department has decided to open new hospitals.
Each new veterinary hospital will also have a veterinary doctor's accommodation, which will make treatment possible even in emergency situations. Besides, services like breed improvement, artificial insemination and infertility prevention will be provided in these hospitals equipped with modern resources.
Veterinary hospitals will be built in these panchayats
New veterinary hospitals will be constructed in Dadhiya Belar (Karpurigram Panchayat) of Samastipur block, Pand of Dalsinghsarai, Sahit of Vidyapatinagar, Saidpur of Kalyanpur, Khanpur North of Khanpur, Mohiuddinpur of Warisnagar, Chaura Tabhka of Vibhutipur and Dudhpura Panchayat of Hasanpur block.
About Rs 75 lakh will be spent on the construction of each hospital. For this, the concerned zonal officers were asked to provide minimum 140 feet × 120 feet land and no objection certificate, the report of which has been submitted to the department.
Efforts to provide better medical care
District Animal Husbandry Officer Dr. Aman Srivastava said that the process of construction of new first class veterinary hospitals is going on in eight blocks of the district. The report has been sent to the headquarters and the department is continuously making efforts to provide better medical facilities to the cattle farmers.