LAHORE:The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Lahore, in collaboration with the Government of the Punjab, arranged a meeting on ‘Humanitarian assistance campaign for flood affected families in Punjab’ at city campus, here on Friday.
Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad presided over the meeting and sought suggestion and input from the UVAS senior faculty members for providing veterinary services, vaccine, animal nutrition like (feed, vunda) and strategy that how to rescue livestock farming community animals from different diseases including foot and mouth, hemorrhagic fever, diarrhoea in flood affected areas of Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur and Taunsa Sharif, etc.
Director General (Extension) Livestock Department Dr Ehtisham, Principal CVAS Jhang Prof Dr Fiaz Qamar, Principal KBCMA-CVAS Narowal Prof Dr Younus Rana, Chairman Department of Parasitology Prof Dr Kamran Ashraf, Prof Dr Muhammad Ijaz, Registrar Sajjad Hyder and a number of faculty members from different campuses and department of UVAS were also present.
Addressing the participants in the meeting, Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad constituted three committees for fund raising, vaccine collection from allied pharmaceutical industries and for field work in the flood affected areas to provide treatment facilities at the doorsteps of livestock farming families to save their animals. He said the UVAS faculty members and students were always willing and enthusiastic to perform such services for the noble cause.
Dr Ehtisham said that Livestock Department willing to provide all necessary assistance, vaccine and resources to UVAS rescue teams for successfully perform their duties. He said maximum deserving and needy families get benefits from their services.
The participants in the meeting also suggested the line of action that how to UVAS rescue team members would serve their duties in the odd circumstances, necessary arrangements for equipment in the badly affected areas.