FROM LEFT: Hussein Gebran Eliahri, Head of Veterinary Quarantine Department; Abdul Aziz Mahmoud Al Ziarah, Assistant Director of Livestock Department, and Dr. Khalid Abdel Hakim Mehran, an expert from the Laboratory Biotechnology and Veterinary Laboratory
DOHA: Within the framework of the state’s plan for food security and protection of country’s economic projects, the work is under way to establish two quarantine veterinary centres, one at Hamad Port and the second at Al Ruwais Port.
“The quarantine veterinary establishment at Al Ruwais Port is expected to be open by next year while the other one at Hamad Port will take more time as it will be spreading over 60,000 square metres area,” said Engineer Abdul Aziz Mahmoud Al Ziarah, Assistant Director of Livestock Department at the Ministry of Municipality and Environment.
“The veterinary quarantine is a first line of defence for protecting the country from transient diseases that can be transmitted through imported animal shipments,” Al Ziarah added, while speaking yesterday on the sideline of the training workshop organised by the Ministry. He also added that the quarantine office which is at Abu Samra border was non-functional after the crisis.
The workshop will continue until October 11 and more than 20 trainees attended the workshop on its first day. The theme of the workshop is veterinary quarantines and its role of protecting Qatari environment from trans border diseases.
The course was attended by Hussein Gebran Eliahri, Head of Veterinary Quarantine Department, and Dr. Khalid Abdel Hakim Mehran, an expert from the Laboratory Biotechnology and Veterinary Laboratory.
In his speech at the inauguration of the workshop, Al Ziarah said that the Department is keen to invest in training its technical staff and providing them with the necessary knowledge and skills to build their capacities in various work fields.
He added that this training course comes within several training sessions aimed at raising the efficiency of its employees with the latest developments in the field of livestock. The course was designed to help veterinary quarantine workers to strengthen their knowledge of the concept of quarantine and veterinary measures to protect the state from transient diseases.
