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Ugandan gov't seeks 17 mln USD for bird flu program |
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20:16, July 11, 2007 |
The Ugandan government has requested the World Bank to provide 17 million U.S. dollars for the national action program for bird flu.
The National Influenza Task Force developed a plan, which has lacked funding since February 2006.
Neolina Nantima, the national coordinator of the program at the Ministry of Agriculture, was quoted by state-owned New Vision on Wednesday saying that they were developing guidelines for marketing poultry, which would among other things criminalize the transportation of live birds.
"We shall encourage poultry markets to allocate slaughter areas because the current transportation methods like the wooden nests are a channel for the spread of the disease," she said.
Nantima said the new slaughter system would also protect commercial birds from infection.
"We have realized that commercial farmers are suffering because backyard farmers do not vaccinate their birds and indiscriminately depose off the feathers and offal of the chicken at home," she said.
Meanwhile, the World Bank in partnership with UN agencies has dispatched a team of consultants to carry out rapid appraisal of the veterinary services across the country.
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