The eradication against infectious diseases in the regions is not doing well.
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VIVAnews - Indonesia still requires 9000 veterinarians out of 20 thousand needed up to year 2020. Currently, there are only 11 thousand vets available throughout the country.
“We are still in need of 9000 vets while there are less than 1000 vet school graduates every year,” Councilor of Veterinary Faculty of Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Prof Bambang Sumiarto said.
As reported by UGM’s official website on Wednesday, October 28, Sumiarto also said the ratio between the number of available and required vets is really high. There are lot of stations, which are supposed to be filled by vet school graduates, being managed by non-professionals. As a result, the attempt to eradicate infectious diseases did not work effectively.
“The effects are felt today. In regencies, where they are supposed to be working, there isn’t any vet available. That’s why the eradication against infectious diseases is not doing well,” he said.
Sumiarto went on by saying that there are only five veterinary faculties having their students graduated every year. They are Bogor Agricultural Institute, Syiah Kuala University in Aceh, Airlangga University in Surabaya and Udayana University in Bali.
Meanwhile, three other veterinary faculties from Brawijaya University, Mataram University in West Nusa Tenggara and Wijaya Kusuma University in Surabaya do not always have graduates every year. “There are less than 1000 graduates every year,” he said.
Sumiarto also pointed out three functions and main duties of vet school graduates: eradicating infectious diseases, developing animal farms and working on vet-related public health issues.
At the workshop and educational board meeting of veterinarians, which were held for two days from October 28 to 30, the standardization of animal hospitals was one of the discussion topics. Sumiarto expects the standardization could help the students’ co-assistance trainings. Up until today, there are only three animal hospitals available for trainings which are the ones belonging to UGM, Bogor Agricultural Institute and Airlangga University. “Besides educating the trainees to be qualified vets, the hospitals are also used as references by animal clinics,” he said.
Professor Dondin Sajuti from Bogor Agricultural Institute also said at the event that cooperation between veterinary faculties and the hospitals will be sustained according to the role of the hospitals as academic supporting units. “The duty and function of the institute’s animal hospital is to support the students’ trainings, in addition to serve the animals as the patients, the animal owners and the society,” Sajuti said.
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Translated by: Nataya Ermanti
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