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WVSIndiaITC/monthlyreport/2018/ilonaotter
March 2018
WVS ITC India training courses
1. ABC surgery courses
Again, two training courses have been completed in March and totally 24 veterinarians and 3
assistants have been trained. With an extra catching team being available to us for 2 weeks, our team
reached to the near-impossible and operated 185 extra dogs in addition to surgeries that we do with
the participants every day. This brought the total number of spay/neuter surgeries in March by the
WVS ITC team up to 575!!!
We also celebrated the 23000th spay/neuter surgery in ITC! For over seven years of working, this may
not seem like a big number for an ABC program, but we have to remember that all of these surgeries
have been done with participants and therefore each surgery, besides of benefitting the individual
dog, has also provided more confidence and inspiration to a veterinarian. This is the key to sustainable
change in animal welfare and effective dog population control.
The quality of our work is also now published. Thanks to the WVS research support team in the
Edinburgh, the article “Investigation of short-term surgical complications in a low-resource, high-
volume dog sterilisation clinic in India”, presenting the WVS ITC surgery wound healing data from 2015
was published in BMC Veterinary Research. This article has already received attention from other ABC-
programs in India as well as from past WVS ITC vets now studying postgraduate degrees in surgery
and we will be including it to our training handout as an easy reference to all our participants.
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IPAN outreach clinic by WVS India
Dr Chahat has been leading a team of three visiting vets from Finland to run an outreach clinic at the
IPAN shelter. They have sterilised and vaccinated dogs from the nearby villages, treated various
injuries and helped the IPAN shelter by having the rescued ponies and donkeys dewormed and
vaccinated. They also participated in the Bandipur National Park vaccination day together with the
ITC team on the 24th March.
Vaccination drives in the Nilgiris and surroundings
In March we were lucky to have an extra dog
catching team temporarily with us and
therefore were able to focus more in getting
dogs from the far-end corners of the district
to get operated and vaccinated. We have
therefore decided to postpone the rest of our
annual rabies-vaccination drive –cum –
sterilisation-coverage –survey towards the
end of the year and will be covering areas
outside of the Nilgiris district during our
scheduled vaccination days to continue to
build up a ‘rabies-controlled barrier zone’ to
the rabies-free Nilgiris district.
On the 24th March our teams drove to the Bandipur national park in Karnataka state where there are
many rural villages and tribal hamlets within the national park just outside the border of Tamil Nadu
and Nilgiris district. 14 of these villages were covered in one day and the total number of dogs
vaccinated was 256. As expected, most of these dogs were not yet operated. We are discussing about
a proposal with another local NGO and the Forest Department and WWF to start a sterilisation
program in that area. Because of the presence of wild carnivores there, we are hoping to also include
the ‘six-in-one’ –vaccine to this program to help to protect the wild carnivores from distemper.
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Volunteer feedback
“Very good experience of an Indian neutering programme and clinical cases presented to the clinic on
site. Enjoyable and friendly atmosphere with the professional and lay staff very knowledgeable and
helpful. Would recommend this to any veterinary surgeon wishing to expand their horizons. Thanks
WVS India!”
-Steven Cuminer, BVSc, MRCVS, Cardiff UK -
Feedback from a participant
“Thank you very much for a good 2 weeks Ilona and the rest of the WVS team. We have all really
enjoyed ourselves and learnt a lot about surgery and anesthesia. I had a great last night at the dinner,
the dancing was fantastic and a good bonding session. I would suggest having a similar welcome
dinner at the beginning of the course because I now feel so much closer to the team & it might help
with some home sickness feelings at the beginning. Congratulations on providing such a great training
course. #justkeepspaying, Thanks! “
- Emily Bryce, Australia -
Working equine street clinics
In March we held our monthly clinic and have had two horses as inpatients at the ITC. Totally, our
working equine clinic service as attended to 115 horse cases since the start of this program in
December 2017.
Two working donkey clinics were held in March; one in Theni and another one in Krishnagiri. In Theni,
the donkey owners have really come forward in their interest for castrating their male animals and
during this camp, 15 male donkeys were castrated by Dr Aswin and the team. We also had two vet
students in addition to our WVS vet intern Dr Balaji and the new working equine team junior vet, Dr
Tvesa, attending the camp to learn more about donkeys and their care and how to run these
community-based programs. Totally 320 working donkeys were attended in March.
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Feedback from Dr Shaeik Baba Fakruddin, who
attended the Theni camp as a participant
“Hello WVS It's been fabulous journey with you. I just
attended the donkey camp in Theni with
inconsequential or negligible knowledge but Dr. Aswin
was a wonderful tutor and just incorporated many
points and techniques of surgery, handling of donkeys,
deworming, vaccination and other treatment aspects in
to my brain.
The most glorifying point is doing castration in a most aseptic way. Using of catheters for IV
in large animals is something like very new for me. And I would like to thank Dr. Aswin for that.
He was training us in a very amazing way and he even took care of our food and bed in a better
way. We even had better post-operative care. The best point is when we were leaving he was
like “Hope You have learned something “that shows his dedication. I would really love to thank
you all for providing me this wonderful opportunity to learn. I need to Thank Dr. Balaji, Dr.
Tvesa and Joyens for being such a good companions. Last but not the least I would like to
thank Sam and Rajesh. If these guys were not there it would be difficult for us to learn and
continue with our surgeries...I would love to attend many more donkey camps in near future.”
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Jamtse project in Bylakuppe
The Jamtse team has come across 2 rabies cases in March. The
other one was an owned dog that had bitten its owner. Our team
has informed the owner about the importance of post-exposure
vaccinations and the owner is following the vaccination schedule.
We are scheduling field vaccination days to the areas were these
positive dogs have been found to try to stop the transmission of
rabies virus as soon as possible.
Our spay/neuter work continues in Bylakuppe with 700 dogs
operated this year so far with Dr Ananth presently in-charge there. Dr Hari has also completed an annual
population survey in Kollegal, where the Jamtse program begun last year. We are looking forward for the WVS
research team to put all the data together to make a summary report of the effect of the work so far.
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WVS India vets that rotate between WVS ITC, Hicks ITC, MR truck, MR
Goa, Jamtse and other WVS outreach projects in India
Name Project budget Working at ITC ‘Bonus’ trips done
since
1 Dr. Vinay ITC main/DT 2012 UK 2014, Nepal 2015, Malawi
2016, Thailand 2016
2 Dr. Aswin WTG 2013 UK 2015, Malawi 2016,
Thailand 2017
3 Dr. Hari BBF/Jamtse 2016
4 Dr. Lysandra MT/Hicks 2016 Thailand in 2018
5 Dr. Amanda ITC main / DT 2016
6 Dr. Stacy WVS intern 2016 Thailand in 2017
7 Dr. Balaji WVS intern 2016 Thailand in 2017
8 Dr. Amulya ITC domestic donations 2017
9 Dr. Chahat MR Goa 2017
10 Dr. Catharina Hicks domestic donations 2017
11 Dr. Ananth ITC main / DT 2017
12 Dr. Akshay WVS intern 2017
13 Dr. Shashank MR truck 2017
14 Dr. Gavin MT/Hicks 2017
15 Dr. Shruti MR Goa 2017
16 Dr. Vineeta MR truck 2017
17 Dr. Sarasi WVS intern 2017
18 Dr. Neeti Vasco 2017
19 Dr. Anahita MT/Hicks 2017
20 Dr. Manvir MT/Hicks 2018
21 Dr. Tvesa WVS/WE/WTG 2018
21 Ilona 2009
22 Karlette 2016
WVS India ITC brief stats for the year 2018
participants
participants
participants
Vet surgery
other cases
and Jamtse)
managers
ABC (IPAN
ARV plain
Outreach
Outreach
ABC dogs
surgeries
ITC clinic
assistant
ABC cats
program
Working
training
Surgery
courses
WEHW
Special
equine
course
cases
cases
ABC
Vet
1339 35 1169 34 386 507 766 237 8 64 11 0 6
More details of the activity numbers at WVS India ITC and its outreach projects available on request
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