April 20, 2022

10:04

Ívina Garcia – Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – The first Public Veterinary Hospital of Amazonas should start its services in the first semester of 2023. The works were authorized after signing the term of service held on the afternoon of Tuesday, 19, by State Governor Wilson Lima (Union Brazil) and the lawmakers responsible for the project, Joana D’arc and Saullo Vianna.

The project is the first in the state dedicated exclusively to offering free urgent and emergency care for animals from low-income families. The investment came from two parliamentary amendments of R$ 500 thousand reais from the project’s author, Joana Darc (União Brasil) and another R$ 500 thousand reais from the lawmaker Saulo Vianna (União Brasil), the Amazonas government has committed itself to fund the rest necessary for the work, which in total will cost R$ 3.7 million reais and promises to be the largest public veterinary hospital in Brazil.

In Brazil, there are, in all, 11 public veterinary hospitals. Of this number, 10 are university hospitals, built by universities for the course of Veterinary Medicine. Only one of them, located in São Paulo, was built as a public hospital, with no connection with universities. Amazonas is the pioneer in the North Region.

According to governor Wilson Lima, the construction will be delivered in the first half of 2023, but the search for professionals begins this year.

“Our idea is that it [veterinary hospital] already starts, in the inauguration, working with doctors, specialists and veterinarians. In three months, we will start the process of hiring these professionals.

The hospital is linked to the State Secretariat of Environment (Sema), will have two floors and will be built next to the secretariat building, at Avenida Mario Ypiranga, South-Central Zone of Manaus. The work will be executed by the State Department of Infrastructure and the Metropolitan Region of Manaus (Seinfra).

The hospital will have triage services, a surgical center with 11 stretchers, post-operative rooms, X-ray, hospitalization, isolation, emergency and necropsy rooms. In addition, there will be stalls for the animals and male and female bathrooms for employees. The hospital will also offer castration services and responsible adoption fairs, to reduce the animal population on the streets of Manaus.

Neutering

At the press conference, the governor announced two more mobile neutering units, which will go around the districts of the capital and the countryside cities, providing free castration services for pets. Besides contributing to the reproductive control of domestic animals, the units will send biological samples of the animals to the FVS, in order to perform the surveillance of zoonoses (animal rabies, leptospirosis, leishmaniasis, and sporotrichosis) in Amazonas.