LAHORE:The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Lahore, in collaboration with Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), arranged a two-day national workshop on ‘Equine Distal Limb Lameness Diagnosis and Sonography’ at the UVAS Veterinary Academy.
A spokesperson for the university said on Saturday that Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad presided over the inaugural session of the workshop while UVAS Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Masood Rabbani chaired the concluding session, and distributed certificates among the participants and resource persons.
In-charge Pet Centre Prof Dr Asim Khalid, Prof Dr Ijaz Ahmad, Dr Shehla Gul Bokhari and a number of participants were present.
Prof Masood Rabbani said that the UVAS was working actively on the health and treatment of animals by adopting the latest techniques and methodologies.
The equine distal forelimb ultrasound workshop designed for the practicing veterinarians/ students confronted with the challenges to diagnose and locating the seat of lameness in the equine flexor tendons. The focus of the training was to enable the participants to correctly scan the musculoskeletal structures of equine (horses) distal forelimb as well as to locate lesions in the lame athletics horse.