Saleh Jarullah Al Marri (left), Head of Livestock Health Section at the Animal Resources Department of Ministry of Municipality and Environment, addressing a press conference.
Doha: The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) represented by Animal Resources Department is preparing to open a new veterinary centre in Abu Nakhla under a project to provide quality healthcare services to the livestock farms locally called ‘Al Azab’.
The new project is part of a massive plan of the Ministry to ensure self-sufficiency of the country in production of meat and milk which assumed great importance after blockade.
“Plans are afoot to open another new veterinary centre in Abu Nakhla followed by two recently opened ones in Al Wakra and Al Jamiliyah,” said Saleh Jarullah Al Marri, Head of Livestock Health Section at the Animal Resources Department of Ministry of Municipality and Environment.
Speaking to The Peninsula on the sidelines of a workshop entitled ‘Have a check on outbreak of infectious diseases’ which began yesterday at the headquarters of the Agricultural and Fisheries Sector.
The five-day workshop is being organised by the MME represented by Animal Resources Department in collaboration with Arab Organisation for Agricultural Development (AOAD).
“The workshop aims at educating those working in the field of veterinary medicine at the Ministry about international scientific ways to detect the infectious diseases and epidemic to protect the livestock in a bid to ensure food security in the country,” said Saleh Jarullah Al Marri while addressing a press conference.
He said the workshop will also help to form a Rapid Response Team (RRT) with multiple specialisations and to implement the field work. “A total of 20 trainees are participating the workshop from four sections of the Animal Resources Department of the Ministry,” said Al Marri.
He said that Qatar is safe from any epidemic. “The veterinary quarantine is playing key role in protecting the spread of any type of epidemic or trans-boarder disease in the country,” said Al Marri adding that State is providing necessary immunisation to the livestock. He said that Livestock Health Section will provide poultry farms with immunisation against ‘Newcastle’ disease next week.
“The Section has also planned to provide a number of new vaccinations to poultry and livestock farms soon for quality production,” said Al Marri.
He said that the infectious diseases increased worldwide which affected the health of the community and economy of many countries.
“About 58 percent diseases affect human being and about 73 percent of new types of epidemics affect both human and livestock like Ebola, SARS, bird-flue, swine-flue and Corona,” said Al Marri.
