THE VETERINARIAN RESPONSE TO THE COVID 19 CRISIS
INTRODUCTION
The corona virus pandemic is spreading unexpectedly throughout the world. The Covid 19 pandemic impacts populations in numerous ways. This pandemic awakens the need for longstanding and sustainable, One Health collaboration which can take many forms. According to the World Health Organization’s report Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity via Action at the Social Determinants of Health, “bad and unequal residing situations are the effects of deeper structural situations that collectively style the manner societies are organized—bad social rules and programs, unfair monetary arrangements, and terrible politics. This poisonous mixture of things as they play out for the duration of this time of crisis, and as early information at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic pointed out, is disproportionately affecting people. I apprehend that the pandemic has had and is having devastating results on different minorities as well; however area does now no longer allow this essay to discover the effect on different minority groups.
COVID 19 CRISES
Employing a human rights lens on this evaluation facilitates us translate wishes and social troubles into rights, focusing our interest at the broader sociopolitical structural context because the motive of the social troubles. Human rights spotlight the inherent dignity and really well worth of all humans, who’re the number one rights-holders. Governments (and different social actors, which include corporations) are the duty-bearers, and as such have the responsibility to appreciate, defend, and satisfy human rights. Human rights cannot be separated from the societal contexts wherein they’re recognized, claimed, enforced, and fulfilled. Specifically, social rights, which encompass the proper to fitness, can emerge as crucial equipment for advancing humans’s citizenship and improving their capacity to take part as energetic participants of society. Such an knowledge of social rights calls our interest to the idea of equality, which calls for that we area a more emphasis on “solidarity” and the “collective.”Furthermore, so that you can generate equality, solidarity, and social integration, the achievement of social rights isn’t optional. In order to meet social integration, social rules want to mirror a dedication to appreciate and defend the maximum susceptible people and to create the situations for the achievement of monetary and social rights for all.
ROLE OF VETERINARIAN FOR THE COVID 19 CRISIS
Beyond collaborative research, the animal health sector, and in particular, Veterinary Services, contribute in various ways towards building a common response to the pandemic. In many countries, veterinarians have shown their commitment to support the work of human health authorities. Veterinary laboratories have used their experience and expertise in high throughput testing capacity of infectious diseases to engage in activities such as surveillance screening, by testing human samples, thereby supporting the diagnostic capacity of human health services. Some veterinary clinics have been donating essential materials such as personal protective equipment and ventilators. Veterinary professionals have also been volunteering in hospitals and laboratories when human resources were not sufficient. In some countries, veterinary epidemiologists have been supporting their counterparts in the public health response to track the disease in humans and to support the development of effective public health interventions.
In conjunction with crisis management effort, it should not be forgotten, that on a daily basis, the activities of Veterinary Services contribute to addressing critical needs, which are heavily challenged in the current circumstances: food security and safety, as well as livelihoods are intrinsically linked to sound animal production systems. Veterinary Services, as defined by the OIE , include all official and private veterinarians, who provide important animal and public health disease surveillance to prevent infectious outbreaks, including zoonotic diseases. They ensure food security so that people have safe food to eat by ensuring only healthy animals and their products can enter the food chain. Veterinarians provide ongoing medical care and oversight as well as surgical and emergency services to ill and injured animals. Veterinary Services also include the national and regional veterinary regulatory and inspection services that oversee the integrity of public health. They supervise veterinary services provided in animal hospitals, mobile clinics, ambulatory services, zoos, etc. In addition, they oversee the care of laboratory animals, which are critical to research medicines and vaccines, including vaccine research against viruses such as COVID-19.
CONCLUSION
Any pandemic will have negative impacts on people, animals and our planet, but we can prepare for them and influence their effect. The whole veterinary profession (including veterinary officials, private practitioners, and those working in research, academia and industry), by working together and sharing experiences, solutions and best practices, can alleviate the impact of this pandemic on animals.
“If we don’t handle these 21 days well, then our country, your family will go backwards by 21 years,”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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JAYASHREE. P
1st YEAR B.V.Sc. & A.H,
VETERINARY COLLEGE & RESEARCH INSTITUTE – TIRUNELVELI, TANUVAS, TAMILNADU, INDIA.
GUIDED BY
D R. V. RAMAKRISHNAN, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
VETERINARY COLLEGE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE – TIRUNELVELI
- TANUVAS – CHENNAI
