MVC emerges as savior of Bangladesh’s livestock

City Desk  :
Mobile Veterinary Clinic (MVC) appears as the savior of homegrown cattle and poultries at grassroots to provide emergency treatments in 360 upazilas while officials said works are underway to reach the service to 466 upazilas and nine major cities including the capital.
Mobile cars equipped with veterinary surgeons and their assistants along with necessary surgical equipment and medicine including tranquilizers appear at doorsteps of ordinary farmers or homestead cattle and poultry raisers to provide free of cost service on emergency call at hotline no 16358, reports BSS.
“Our duel cabin vans are almost like ambulances with life support system ready to respond to emergency calls round the clock under the MVS service,” Department of Livestock Services (DLS) Livestock director general Dr Emdadul Huq Talukdar told BSS.
The Upazila Livestock Officer will sit with the veterinary Surgeon in the middle of the vehicle and a compounder or dresser next to the front driver.
According to state-run National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS), the mortality rate of cattle was 3.1 percent in 2016 which came down to 1.8 percent in 2020. It estimated the poultry mortality rate to be as high as 25 percent in 2012 and 12.6 percent in 2021.