Nay Pyi Taw Veterinary Teaching Hospital opened on 23 February

An opening ceremony of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital (Nay Pyi Taw) was inaugurated by the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBDV), the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation at that VTH building located on the Yangon-Mandalay highway on 23 February 2022.
Present at the meeting were Deputy Minister Dr Aung Gyi for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, Dr Ye Tun Win, director-general of the LBVD, rector Dr Mar Mar Win of the University of Veterinary Science, officials concerned and invitees.
At the ceremony, the Deputy Minister gave a remark that the VTH will become the educational source for the future veterinarian in the private sector, provide excellence in education, research, technology and academic services and produce expert veterinarians.
The VTH will offer courses regarding veterinary ethics, veterinary clinical management, veterinary care, treatment, surgery, beauty and basic lab activities. It will conduct training, research and discussion. The mini-lab is placed in the VTH. Laboratory tests and training, mobile laboratory and mobile clinics are also arranged to raise public awareness on veterinarians’ impacts on society and human health.
The VTH is tailored for those veterinarians seeking advanced clinical practice and treatment of rabies and other diseases and preventive measures for diseases that are directly transmissible from animals to humans.
The VTH to produce the future veterinarians was opened in Insein Township, Yangon Region in January 2019. Three-month courses will be opened with the same curriculum based on effective veterinarian clinical teaching in the VTH Nay Pyi Taw. Nevertheless, the first-ever batch will take four months by adding the clinical management practices. — MNA