Update from vet nurses in Kerala

JMICAWE's vet nurse Jess Davies travelled with RVN Roxy Woodrow to visit Kerala Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences University to see how the veterinary nursing students were doing and catch up on the progress with the implementation of the new eleven month veterinary nursing course.

Whilst there they met the new Vice Chancellor of KVASU who was encouraged to hear about the rise of veterinary nursing in Kerala State with the beginning of the new course and agreed to do all he could to assist in its development.

Over the course of three days, Jess and Roxy spent time with veterinary nursing students in the clinic teaching them practical techniques, giving impromptu teaching sessions on bandaging, anaesthesia monitoring and the importance of asepsis. They also spent some time with the veterinary lecturers who are responsible for the ongoing teaching of these students to find out what materials we could provide that could help their teaching.

On their last day, Jess and Roxy visited a nearby ABC clinic. There, they were fortunate to be met by Smt. Beena Murali who is the deputy mayor for Thrissur district.  She wanted to meet the visiting veterinary nurses from University of Edinburgh and look around the clinic that does so much to improve the welfare of the street dog population in the area. The promotion of veterinary nursing in India was further boosted by a film crew following the deputy mayor to record a piece for that evening’s news for which Jess and Roxy we interviewed along with a journalist from The Times of India who was to write a piece about the Deputy Mayor's visit.

This was a great opportunity to promote the fact that veterinary nursing is a profession that is vital to the welfare of all animals along with the fantastic work that the wonderful team at the ABC clinic performs.