Silent majority: Veterinary teams start treating animals

HYDERABAD: Vets have gone to work in 23 of Sindh’s districts at camps set up for the nearly 2.6 million heads of animals who are at risk because of the floods and a shortage of fodder. According to the director-general of livestock, Sarwar Shaikh, 269 camps have been set up. The department has dispatched 181 teams to vaccinate them. Forty-six have been set up in Shaheed Benazirabad. The animals are also being drenched in anti-parasitic medication.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 23^rd,  2011.