Reports | 25 05 2020
Houla region in northern Homs, was known for raising domestic animals, especially cattle and birds, what gave it the self-sufficiency of meat and eggs, over the previous years.
But recently, the number of domestic animals has decreased significantly, due to the lack of health care, where the most important reasons for this decline was the absence of veterinary medicine in Houla.
Abu Abdel-Rahman, a veterinarian, is still in Houla despite the circumstances and the siege of the Syrian regime forces to the region, he said to ROZANA: that most of his colleagues left Houla because of the war, siege and lack of medication, and the shepherds’ emigration of who sold their livestock.
The doctor confirms that they were not able to do something to sick animals, in the absence of medicines, any disease can cause the animal death, without being able to do something.
These factors, affected the local market as well, and the regime forces that surround Houla, do not allow the entry of veterinary medicines, what raise the proportion of deaths among animals as a result of various epidemics.
It seems that the return of livestock in Houla to normal, as before 2011, is not available, under the siege by the regime forces, which is witnessing shortage in veterinarians, where no doctors is left there except Abu Abd al-Rahman and a few others.
