Strengthen ability to manage and control animal diseases and diseases transmitted between animals and humans in Vietnam

Strengthen ability to manage and control animal diseases and diseases transmitted between animals and humans in Vietnam (Internet image) 

Strengthen ability to manage and control animal diseases and diseases transmitted between animals and humans in Vietnam

The content mentioned in Official Dispatch 5370/BNN-TY in 2023 organizes the implementation of Decision 889/QD-TTg issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam.

For the task of strengthening the capacity to manage and control animal diseases and diseases transmitted between animals and humans, in the period of 2023 - 2030:

- Identifying and establishing an epidemic-free area (ATDB) in accordance with provincial planning, the provisions of the Veterinary Law, the Planning Law, and the regulations of the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH/OIE).

- Directing the authorities and specialized agencies at the provincial, district, and commune levels, livestock establishments, and enterprises to well control diseases; focusing and prioritizing the allocation of resources to promote the organization of regional construction, ATDB facilities.

- Every year, allocating funds to implement proactive local plans for disease surveillance, post-vaccination surveillance, taking samples for testing to prove facilities and ATDB areas; buying vaccines, chemicals, and related tools, and organizing vaccination for cattle and poultry in the ATDB and buffer zones; building dossiers, and appraising dossiers for recognition of ATDB regions and facilities.

- Organizing the control of the movement of animals and animal products in and out of the ATDB and buffer zones; controlling animal slaughter, veterinary hygiene in the ATDB and buffer zones, ensuring that the disease does not enter from outside to inside, spread within the area, or spread between regions.

- Prioritizing investment in infrastructure, equipment for epidemiology, diagnosis and testing, and prevention and control of animal diseases in the locality.

- Coordinating with the Department of Animal Health in inviting and welcoming international experts to Vietnam to support the assessment and recognition of facilities and ATDB areas.

- Information, propaganda, and training to improve professional qualifications on disease prevention and control, regions and ATDB facilities according to Vietnamese and WOAH standards; monitoring, diagnosis, and testing of animal diseases.

- Building an information and data management system to ensure traceability requirements.

- Developing a contingency plan to respond when detecting animal diseases.

- Urgently consolidating and strengthening the capacity of the veterinary system at all levels according to the provisions of the Law on Veterinary Medicine 2015, the direction of the Politburo, the Secretariat, the National Assembly, the Government, and the Prime Minister on maintaining and strengthening the capacity of the veterinary system at all levels as prescribed in Article 6 of the Law on Veterinary Medicine; especially urgently re-establishing a district-level veterinary station under the Sub-Department of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine to ensure resources to effectively implement the tasks of animal disease prevention and control.

- Applying new technologies in the research, management, and control of animal diseases.

- Directing, guiding, supervising, examining, inspecting, evaluating, preliminary summarizing, and reporting to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development according to regulations.

In addition, it also guides some other main contents, such as: the task of strengthening management capacity, animal quarantine, slaughter control, veterinary hygiene inspection, food safety for animals, and animal products, for the period 2023–2030.

For the task of improving the management capacity of veterinary drugs and vaccines to ensure quality, safety, and effectiveness in the period 2023–2030.

For the task of promoting the application of information technology and digital transformation in veterinary work, the period of 2023–2030

More details can be found in Official Dispatch 5370/BNN-TY 2023.

Duong Chau Thanh

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