Work Record (Experts)
Name
: Dr. Satis
Pholpark
Position :
Veterinary officer level 8
Period : 5 – 11
February 2006
Dispatched to : JICA office, Bangkok.
Section :
Counterpart(s)
:
Dr. Bountom Khounsy Chief of regional veterinary
diagnostic unit,
Luangprabang(LPB).
Mr.
Phetsakhone FORCOM staff LPB
Mr.
Khamphay FORCOM
staff LPB
Mrs.
Somchan
FORCOM staff LPB
Description of your work
:
Arriving date (5-02 -2006) : Stayed at Vientien.
First working
day(6-02-2006):
I left Vientien and traveled to Luangprabang(LPB) province by
plane. After arriving we visited FORCOM office and had a discussion
with FORCOM staff regarding the activities plan in the next 3
days.After the meeting we have lunched and started the trip to
Sayaburi (SYB)province.We arrived there around 6
PM.
Second working day(7-02-2006)
:Early in the morning we had a consultation meeting among
Sayaburi livestock staff, DAFO staff,FORCOM staff on the
establishment of village veterinary system. After the meeting we
went to visit Namon village.Today we started to interview some
candidate villagers regarding to their animal species
experience.Finally we had selected 5 villagers to join the training
course for VVW-Program(village veterinary worker).During the
interview we noticed that there had a lot of change the village
especially the population of pigs which was distinctively
increased.From the beginning.the farmer received 20 sows and 2
boars from the project in June 2005,but at the present time the
total population of pigs is more than 90 head.This situation
probably reflected from the SF-vaccination and deworming program
that additional served by FORCOM project.The following problem at
present and in the next future is the amount of feeding that might
not be enough for both young piglets and their dams.So the farmer
should calculated how many pigs they should keep and how many pigs
they should sale inorder to maintain their herd in proper healthy
condition.
After
lunch we went to visit the Natak village.This village is the
new village that FORCOM project was selected to join this program
about 4 months ago.We started to interview some candidate villagers
regarding to their animal species experience the same as in Namon
village.Finally we decided to select 3 villagers to join the
training course for VVW-Program(village veterinary worker).During
the interview we noticed that the candidate that the villagers
selected are young and had less or no experience at all about
animal raising even some of them had no animals property of their
own but we have to accepted the decision agreement of the
villagers.After the meeting, we provided some of them with
deworming drug for pigs and buffaloes as their requested.This
showed that now the farmer in this village are gained experience
from the neighboring village(Namon) and realized that their animals
should be deworming to prevent diseases and also increased growth
rate better than the none deworming one.The advantage of this
village is that the average education level of the farmers in this
village is better than the villagers in Namon and there is
electricity in this village too.So in the future we can provide
them(VVW) small refrigerator to keep some drugs and vaccines when
the village veterinary had been established here.Then we came
back to Sayaburi and stayed overnight.
Third
working day(8-02-2006) : Early in the morning we had a
consultation meeting again among Sayaburi livestock staff, DAFO
staff,FORCOM staff about the qualification of VVW that we selected
from both village.So we agreed that in Natak should added 3 more
villagers that yesterday they can’t joined the meeting included
this VVW training course as these 3 more farmers had
experienced and do some job on animal health activities.Finally we
were discussed about the training program.We planed that the
training course should be 2 days period.The content of the training
course should emphasized on the diseases that commonly occurred in
the village such as HS , FMD and some parasites in cattle and
buffaloes,SF in pigs,fowl cholera or duck plaque in duck,Newcastle
and internal parasites in chicken and goat.In theory it should not
take too long lesson it should be finished only
half day in the morning.In the afternoon if it possible it should
be a part of practice mostly about the vaccination injection sites
for different kinds of animal and also the deworming method and
other necessary subject regard to their need with the supplement
edutaining program and group discussion in the late evening.The
next morning should be lesson about animal housing, animal hygiene
,breed and breeding , recording forms and other regulation about
the drug used and drug supply,standard price for drug and services
fee also monthly report to the project to see how progress of the
activities of each VVW.After lunch before their leave ,please let
them do some test to evaluate how good that they have
learned from the course and also gather the information
for the trainer to revised this lesson for the next training
program.As long as the course didn’t take so long ,we should
provide them small hand book which gather all the
lesson, instruction, record and report form for them to use this
book as a reference for their work in the future.I recommend the
FORCOM local staff that the farmer prefered a hand
book illustrated with pictures or
cartoon that can be easily communicate and
understand better than the text.After this discussion then we left
Sayaburi and came back to LPB. After lunch I went to the
FORCOM office and have a discussion again among the FORCOM local
staff with Dr. IWASA, the project manager as a moderater about the
topic of establishment of village veterinary system.
Forth working day(9-02-2006) : We
started the trip to visit Hat Houy village,Pakseng district(about
40 Km. From Luangprabang province ).The purpose of this visit is to
interview and select the farmer and the village veterinary
assistant candidate to join the VVW training program .Finally after
the interviewd we had selected 7 farmers to join the
program.After the meeting a lot of farmers asked for deworming drug
for buffaloes pigs and goats which we tried to provide all of them
as their request.The problem of this village is that the DAFO local
staff never attend any training course compare to the village
veterinary assistant which some of them used to join the
course provided by the EU project before.So we are thinking of the
DAFO local staff should attend this training program as well
with some extra training for specimen collection
in case there have disease outbreak in the village.
Fifth working day(10-02-2006)
: I had the final discussion with the FORCOM local
staff and Mr. Akira Miyoshi,JICA expert.We planed to have a
draft for the handbook for VVW which I left CD with power
point about the diseases in cattle, buffaloes, chicken and pigs as
a guideline for them to prepare. Then I left Luangprabang at 2.30
PM to Vientien on the same day .In the late afternoon, I visited
NAHC and have a small discussion with Dr.Bunloam, the director of
NAHC.After that I came back to hotel and stayed overnight in
Vientien.
Departure date( 11-02-2006 )
: Left Vientien and came back to Khonkaen ,
Thailand.
Any reagent or disposal necessary to the
laboratory.
The local field staff need specimens container and
collections in complete set (Monovet for blood collection,glass
slide to make blood smear, EDTA bottle for blood parasites
diagnosis ,small glass bottle filled up with formalin buffered to
collect the organ or specimen from dead animal ,small ice box to
maintain the fresh specimen and zip-locked plastic bag for
faecal collection).If the laboratory can provide them
beforehand to the extension field staff, they can collect and
handle the specimens from dead animals in the village and submit it
with recording form back to the lab in proper condition.This
will help to correct identified the unknown diseases which commonly
occure in the village.
Any remark you have noticed during your
work.
1.The farmers have more good contact and corporation
with us.This might be from the anthelmintic drug that we gave
to their animals worked effectively in the village and they always
asked for them.This visit we saw a lot of improvement in
animal population and also villagers health condition too.
2.Before the training program had started, some deworming
drugs such as albendazole or ivermectin for treatment of
roundworm and GI-nematode
infection and Ivermec-F for treatment of
liver fluke(Fasciolosis) should be available at
the village level with appropriate deworming program for their
animals.For GI-infection in goat, Haemonchus
contortus infection in abomasum is the most dangerous
species,so they should be treated with ivermectin or albendazole
every 3 months combined with the pasture rotation system.
3.The farmer need small refrigerater to keep the vaccine and
drugs.So they can easily buy them in the
village.
What kind of
cooperative work is possible in
future.
To advice how to establish a village veterinary system
(basic animal health services) at village level in Luangprabang and
Sayaburi. The different kinds of training have to be
established.The first group is VVW ,the second group is DAFO local
staff and the third group is the farmer in the village.More or less
the content of the course are the same but only in details which we
must prepare according to our need.After the training course , we
have to set up a schedule plan for their next activities too
which we can follow and monitor.Whenever they have problems
the FORCOM staff have to solve the problem immediately .The
benefit of this VVS is to building up networks between
VVW,extension livestock field staff , the local laboratory,NAHC and
Dept. of Livestock and Fisheries in LAO PDR to control animal
diseases and will facilitate the farmer to increase their own
indigenous animal production , income from livestock production and
human health from more meat consumption in their family as
well.
