Horse hospitals at the ready for WEG’s equine athletes
Any equines who are feeling a petty hoarse tin cheque into 1 of 5 veterinary clinics that are opened upwards 24 hours a 24-hour interval at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games inward Normandy.
Each of the 5 contest venues has its ain dedicated veterinary clinic, each of which is supported past times iii referral clinics specialising inward equine internal medicine, fractures in addition to the handling of colic. The referral clinics, which volition live on used inward illustration handling is required offsite, are located inside tardily travelling distance in addition to horses volition live on transferred past times equine ambulance.
Each clinic is furnished amongst a sum attain of diagnostic equipment including x-ray in addition to ultrasound machines, in addition to endoscopes. Each facility includes a minimum of 5 handling boxes equally good equally a specific stable for whatsoever Equus caballus who may require to a greater extent than extensive monitoring. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 squad of 5 specialist imaging veterinarians, who are available for proficient assistance in addition to support, is on duty at each clinic.
In addition, each facility houses a chemist's stocking a broad attain of veterinary supplies in addition to sum laboratory equipment. An external laboratory is too available inward illustration farther diagnostic testing is required.
An equine anti-doping facility, where sample collection for anti-doping testing volition accept place, is located on each site, along amongst a forge manned past times iii proficient farriers.
A world-class squad of equine veterinary experts is too inward house at the Games, to safeguard Equus caballus wellness in addition to supply attention in addition to attention.
A sum of 65 treating veterinarians, 26 FEI veterinary officials, 2 veterinarians inward accuse of limb sensitivity testing, in addition to 7 testing veterinarians who are supported past times nine testing technicians, volition live on officiating during the Games. The official vets volition live on supported past times fifty veterinary students and, inward addition, 176 personal in addition to squad veterinarians volition accompany the horses competing inward Normandy throughout the event.
“Horse welfare is cardinal to the go of the FEI,” FEI Veterinary Director Graeme Cooke said. “We produce got a longstanding approach to providing veterinary back upwards at competitions at all levels in addition to on every scale.
“In total, 159 veterinary personnel volition live on working on behalf of the FEI inward Normandy, inward add-on to the squad vets that go amongst the National Federations. They volition all live on working nether the FEI Veterinary Regulations, which comprehend the supervision, wellness in addition to welfare of the horses competing inward FEI events from the minute they become inward on site to the minute they leave.
“This large squad of specialists in addition to the outstanding veterinary facilities produce got been pose inward house to ensure that Equus caballus welfare is absolutely optimal throughout the Games inward Normandy.”
Veterinary Services Manager Anne Couroucé-Malblanc is inward overall accuse of the multi-venue veterinary facilities for the Games.
“None of this massive back upwards organisation would live on possible without the fantastic partnerships nosotros produce got amongst the labs, the vets in addition to the societies that produce got provided equipment for the clinics,” she said.
“It’s wonderful to produce got people of the calibre of Professor Jean-Marie Denoix on board from the CIRALE imaging centre [Centre for Imaging and Research inward Equine Locomotor Disorders] for horses inward Normandy, business office of the Maisons-Alfort vet schoolhouse inward Paris, in addition to (Laboratory) Frank Duncombe inward Normandy. All our treating vets are volunteers, in addition to every 1 of them directly agreed when I asked them to live on business office of this huge event.
“This combination of incredible veterinary expertise in addition to world-class facilities agency that nosotros tin live on totally confident that nosotros volition supply the best possible attention for the horses that nosotros produce got competing at the Games.”
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