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Monday, May 09, 2005
Setup of livestock market in slaughterhouse sought
THE City Government of Baguio is planning to construct a livestock market within the slaughterhouse at the Sto. Niño compound in the city.
Mayor Braulio Yaranon last week created a technical working group headed by Dr. Silardo Bested to prepare cost estimates, plans and programs for the construction of the said facility in an area covered by Proclamation No. 312.
The proclamation, dated April 23, 1930, reserves the slaughterhouse site as a sanitary camp and livestock yard.
The mayor said Dr. Victor Atienza, head of the National Food-and-Mouth Disease Task Force and concurrent assistant director of the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), as well as Dr. Jose Molina, BAI director, specifically recommended the immediate relocation of the existing stockyard within the slaughterhouse premises as a measure to control the food and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak within the area.
Yaranon said the City has allocated P4 million to the budget of the City Veterinary Office (CVO) for this purpose.
Bested will be assisted by Engineers Brigida Ancheta of the City Building and Architects Office (Cbao), Evelyn Cayat of the City Planning Office (CPO), Moises Lozano of the City Environment and Parks Management Office (Cepmo), and Drs. Anthony Bantog and Anthony Bucad of the regional and national FMD Task Forces, respectively.
The City Government, through the CVO under Dr. Brigit Piok, implemented control measures to control the FMD outbreak within the slaughterhouse area, which was put under a 30-day quarantine period until May 14.
Piok earlier reported to the mayor that some animals brought from the lowland for slaughter at the city abattoir were found infected with the disease.
This prompted the said office to impose a quarantine, to subject all animals coming from the lowlands and brought in to the city for butchering, to stricter quality control.During the quarantine period, no hogs will be stocked within the compound.
The control measures also involve the maintenance of cleanliness and stringent regulations in the entry of hogs and vehicles within the area. (Aileen P. Refuerzo)
(May 9, 2005 issue)
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