13 Animal Disease Control Centers Approved for Establishment and Rehabilitation

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13 Animal Disease Control Centers Approved for Establishment and Rehabilitation

10/23/2019

The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA) has approved the establishment and rehabilitation of 13 centers for disease control and early warning in all regions of the Kingdom.

MEWA pointed out that the centers are important for the governance of animal disease by coordinating epidemiological surveillance, early warning alert and response, applying emergency plans, as well as controlling disease risks in livestock. MEWA also indicated that the second phase will be initiated through the rehabilitation of 4 centers in the Eastern Province, Hail, Baha, and Asir.

It is worth mentioning that the centers are one of the main outputs of the initiatives of the National Transformation Program 2020. The centers will be working on animal disease investigation, developing preventive programs that work to control animal diseases, management of epidemiological status of animal diseases and rapid outbreak response, providing the headquarter with disease information needed to contribute to the epidemiological mapping, offering technical opinion in case of consulting, guiding veterinary teams to control animal diseases, and following up the implementation of animal diseases control plans bay region and geographical conditions.