The NTT Service Has Prepared A Team To Monitor The Location For Preventing Animal Slaughter

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KUPANG - The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Livestock Service has prepared a team to oversee locations where sacrificial animals are slaughtering to prevent the spread of animal mouth and Kuku (PMK) diseases in the island-based province. Head of the NTT Livestock Service Yohana Lisapaly in Kupang, Friday, July 8, said his party had written to the district/city office in NTT to monitor the place of slaughtering sacrificial animals. "If the district/city we give a notification letter, while the NTT Livestock Service City will go directly with a veterinarian," he said, quoted by Antara. The team of doctors and a number of other officers will start working on Saturday (9/7) tomorrow to check the health of animals before being slaughtered to be sacrificed. After that, if someone has slaughtered them, the internal organs will be examined clinically again to ensure they can be consumed. "So when the slaughter process is also assigned to assist directly so that they can monitor and examine the internal organs of the slaughtered livestock for sacrifice," he added. Yohana, who is also the PLT of the NTT Secretary, added that until now NTT is still safe from PMK cases, so supervision and prevention will continue to be carried out.

According to him, it is necessary for all parties to cooperate so that the outbreak does not enter NTT so that it does not interfere with the supply chain of cows outside NTT. Head of the Kupang Class I Quarantine Center Yulius Umbu H said that Animal Quarantine is tasked with preventing the entry of various animals that are divided from outside NTT that can transmit PMK. "However, if it is necessary to check the health of animals ahead of slaughtering, we are ready," he added. In essence, he said, the location or place of slaughtering animals must also be clean and not slum places that can spread disease or viruses.