Livestock specialists in Bauchi State have warned farmers towards indiscriminate use of antibiotics in animals, saying the observe may gas antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and pose dangers to animal and human well being.
They gave the warning on the maiden Bauchi Livestock Stakeholders’ Engagement and Capacity Building Forum held on the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) Secretariat in Bauchi.
Speaking on the occasion, the State Chairman of the Nigerian Association of Animal Health and Husbandry Technologists (NAAHHT), Salisu Abubakar Buba, described animal well being technologists as important workforce for the implementation of livestock extension companies and vaccination campaigns.
He mentioned the absence of animal well being technologists at abattoirs, livestock markets and border posts poses critical dangers to meat security, illness surveillance and the management of zoonotic illnesses.
On his half, Dr Muhammad Sani Mu’azu, a lecturer on the Federal Polytechnic Damaturu, Yobe State, pressured the necessity for correct regulation of antimicrobial use in livestock manufacturing.
He warned that giving animals medicine and antibiotics with out correct steerage may endanger human lives as a result of folks eat animal merchandise.
In a presentation titled “Combating Antimicrobial Resistance in Food Animals: The Role of the One Health Approach in Securing Bauchi’s Animal Protein Value Chain”, Provost of the Bauchi State College of Agriculture, Dr Ahmed Isah Ahmed, described antimicrobial resistance as a serious menace to human and animal well being.
He defined that the misuse of antibiotics in livestock may enhance animal deaths, therapy prices and manufacturing losses, affecting farmers’ incomes and the protection of animal merchandise.
Ahmed known as for a ‘One Health’ method that brings collectively human and animal well being professionals, farmers, environmental scientists and policymakers to deal with the issue.
He urged livestock farmers to make use of antibiotics solely when obligatory and beneath veterinary supervision.
He additionally really useful improved farm hygiene, vaccination, biosecurity, animal vitamin and correct record-keeping to scale back the necessity for antibiotics.
Others who offered papers on the occasion have been Dr. Abdullahi Mohammed of the Federal Polytechnic Bauchi and Dr. Idi Saidu of the Bauchi State College of Agriculture.
The discussion board was organised by NAAHHT, in collaboration with the Bauchi State Ministry of Livestock Development, the L-PRES Project, MHWUN Bauchi State Council and the Centre of Excellence for Integrated Farming System at Federal Polytechnic Bauchi.
With the theme, “From Farm to Fork: Building a Resilient, Productive Livestock Sector under One Health in Bauchi State”, the discussion board introduced collectively authorities officers, lecturers, farmers, conventional rulers, growth companions and college students to debate methods to enhance livestock manufacturing and animal well being.
In a communiqué issued on the finish of the discussion board, NAAHHT known as on the Bauchi State Government to make use of animal well being technologists and different livestock professionals to deal with workers shortages throughout the state’s 20 native authorities areas.
The affiliation additionally known as for the total implementation of the reviewed 100% Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) for animal well being technologists within the state and urged the Head of the Civil Service to intervene within the wage deductions affecting the employees in September 2026.
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