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No diagnostic facilities

Over 1 lakh animals die every year in Rajshahi

From Abdul Wadood
RAJSHAHI, July 11: A full-fledged complex for research and diagnosis of animal diseases should immediately be established at Raj shahi, local livestock experts and farm-owners observe.
Due to lack of research and diagnostic facilities, sick animals cannot be treated well. As a result, more than one lakh pet animals are dying every year in Raj shahi, local livestock office sources said.
There are 11 small hospitals at different places in the district, but there is not virtually any diagnostic facility in these hospitals. Physicians and livestock technicians and workers diagnose diseases clinically and treat animals empirically.
"It becomes sometimes very difficult for us to diagnose disease in open eye when the animal cannot tell anything about Its condition," said a thana level livestock physician on condition of anonymity.
There are three separate big government farms of cows, goats and poultry in the district. Besides, 155 farms of cow. 82 farms of swans. 225 farms of poultry. 135 farms of goat and 45 farms of sheep are being run by the private owners in the district.
In these farms, there are 7,175 cows of mixed varieties. 1.62,075 cows of indigenous varieties, 6.00,200 goats, 1,32,000 sheep. 27.20.045 chicken and 4.95,000 swans.
In addition to it. there are several crores of pet animals in non-commercial individual and familial level.
Dr Moinuddin Ahmed Mamun, a livestock officer at Raj shahi said more than one lakh animals die every year due to failure in diagnosis of diseases.
"If we had diagnostic facilities most of the diseases of animals could be diagnosed and treated." he said.
For any diagnostic and research purposes, specimens like blood, stool, urine are to be sent to Dhaka. "It takes one to three months to get the report at Rajshahl," Dr Mamun said. "As a result, sending specimens to Dhaka actually brings no fruit for us. as the very sick animal either dies or recovers in the meantime." he said.
Like him. many others also opine that establishment of a full-fledged unit for research and diagnosis of animal diseases at Rajshahl will not only save thousands of livestocks, at the same
time, will enhance and flourish more new farms in the area.
The main reason, for which a farm becomes a losing concern. Is uncontrolled incidences and prevalence of diseases that kill the animals herd by herd within a very short period of time.
"Our main enemy is attacks of diseases on our animals that cannot often be controlled well and instantly," said Akmal Hossain Lavlu, a small poultry farm owner in the city.
Conditions are such that sometimes the diseases cannot at all be diagnosed and controlled by clinical assessment, or some times cannot be diagnosed, but controlled after, trial of different drugs one by one. "In both the cases, we have to suffer a loss, more or less", said Lavlu.
A mentionable improvement has been achieved during last one decade in extension of livestocks in Rajshahl district, but incidence of diseases is seriously hampering animal's growth, said Dr Mamun.
He. like others, suggested in this perspective, to set up a full-fledged centre for research and diagnosis of animal diseases at Rajshahl. He also suggested to provide minimum pathological facilities up to upazila level.