Staff Reporter
Peshawar
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (FAO) has refurbished 14 veterinary diagnostic laboratories in newly merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to strengthen capacities and improve livestock services in the area.
These labs are refurbished with civil works and labs that are equipped with diagnostic tools and storage facilities to facilitate long-term storage of vaccines and solar energy to ensure the uninterrupted power supply. FAO with support from United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) has completed the work on 14 labs at selected locations in Orakzai, Kurram, North Waziristan and South Waziristan districts, said an official of FAO here Tuesday.
She said that FAO was also working in close collaboration with the Livestock and Dairy Development Department of KP’s merged districts and establishment of veterinary diagnostic laboratories were a part of the activities that will support diagnoses, control, and eradication of diseases in animals. Specimens from animals that are suspected to have been affected by infectious and non-infectious diseases could be analyzed in the laboratories which would help detection of causative agents for timely diagnosis of diseases and treatment.
