Under the auspices of 'In-service Training Facility of Advance Veterinary Education and Professional Development for Veterinary Professionals (IVPD)', a Punjab government funded project, organised various workshops at University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS)'s Lahore Ravi Campus Pattoki.
According to a UVAS's spokesperson here on Wednesday, one-week hands-on clinical training programme on 'Dairy Animal Clinical Examination and Equine Lameness' was arranged under the supervision of Meritorious Professor Dr Talat Naseer Pasha and Project Director Dr Hafsa Zenab. Foreign expert Dr Kamran Jahangir was the trainer on the occasion. He is a director of Bank Street Animal Hospital at Ottawa, Canada, and Partner of Emergency Hospital (OCEVH). He has 16 years of clinical experience in the field of veterinary medicine.
The objective of the training was to practically equip the trainees with most recent hands-on clinical skills in dairy, equine and small animals. The trainer will practically demonstrate the procedure of clinical examination of equines and dairy animals, anesthesia and its complications, critical care of animals, practical demonstration of CPR, various nerve blocks and equine lameness. Many UVAS faculty members, postgraduate students and representatives of private training institutes participated in the training.
Meanwhile, in collaboration with the Department of Theriogenology, IVPD organised one-week international hands-on training workshop on "bovine embryology" under the supervision of foreign expert Professor Dr Kehuan Lu (from Guangxi University Nanning, China).
The main objective of this workshop is to equip the faculty with in-vitro embryo production technology, including follicle aspiration, oocytes grading, in-vitro maturation, in-vitro fertilization, semen preparation, in-vitro culturing and grading of embryos. Fifteen participants from City Campus, Jhang Campus and Narowal Campus participated in the workshop.