SOME 379 residents in Manapla town have received various veterinary services through the veterinary medical mission of the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) in Negros Occidental.

Provincial Veterinarian Renante Decena said the clients served were owners of 61 canines (dogs), five felines (cats), 10 bovines (cattle), 105 rabbits, 25 porcine (pigs), six caprines (goats), and 222 avians (birds).

Decena said the veterinary services given during the medical mission held in Barangay IA last week included consultation and treatment.

“The veterinary relief operation in Second District is part of the PVO's intervention in response to mitigation and recovery efforts intended for the affected animal sector due to frequent bad weather conditions,” he added.

The PVO also earlier conducted veterinary medical missions in some localities in the Third and Fourth Districts.

On February 3, it provided treatment, consultation, deworming, vitamin B supplementation of pet and livestock animals, vaccination, distribution of veterinary drugs, medicines and biologics, as well as information and education (IEC) materials on livestock raising during the rainy season to animal raisers in Fourth District.

The PVO, through the Provincial Veterinary District Field Unit in District IV, also dispersed 300 heads of free-range chicks intended to replenish the stocks of the affected beneficiaries of the animal dispersal program.

There were a total of 117 clients served for Valladolid. In San Enrique and Pontevedra, the PVO catered to 106 and 102 clients, respectively.

On January 26, a simultaneous veterinary relief operation was also conducted in the province's Third District.

In Victorias City, the veterinary relief operations were conducted in badly-hit barangays such as Barangays 6A and 7 with 97 clients served.

“It will be a province-wide activity,” Decena said, adding that they are also set to conduct a veterinary medical mission in Fifth and First Districts this year.