Primary Healthcare Services for Livestock

Rejuvenating and Developing Livestock Healthcare Systems

Indian farmers and livestock herders face great economic losses due to mortality or sickness caused by infectious diseases — many of which are entirely preventable. An outbreak of disease means loss of capital assets of a regular source of income, which decline further due…

Although the work done by government departments and institutes is crucial and acknowledged the economic loss due to animal disease is high. The reason being the current public veterinary health care is solely focused on two broad areas— Prevention and Treatment.

The Rain-fed Livestock Network believes it is time to create an enabling environment through the right policy frameworks that would strengthen existing healthcare systems and take into account the needs and priorities of poor livestock keepers. When framing policies, RLN proposes the need to consider and support the impact of social, environmental and economic issues even in matters related to animal health.

RLN urges an urgent need to increase public investments and strengthen decentralised planning for effective and appropriate primary health delivery through programmes that are in sync with location-specific, agro-ecological conditions.