Vets decry lack of hands-on training

“By not allowing us to work on cases and transferring them to private doctors, the BSPCA is dampening our morale,” said Fulsandar, adding, “The government spends about Rs four lakh to educate us. If we are not given practical training, how can we make good vets?”

The students flayed the BSPCA management’s move to privatise treatment of pets, presently carried out by the college.

“The management in connivance with some BVC professors is violating the terms of agreement reached between the BVC and the Trust a century ago,” they claimed.

The students have also demanded an inquiry into the workings of the BSPCA. Express Newsline had reported in detail how the BSPCA was removing blood from stray animals and transfusing it into domesticated pets brought there for treatment under its Animal Birth Control (ABC) project.

It was also found that a former professor at the BVC, hired by the BSPCA exclusively to sterilise stray dogs under the BMC-sponsored birth control programme, has been treating pets as well in his private clinic.

Even as Fulsundar informed that the associate dean has promised to look into the matter at the earliest, a surgeon attached to the BVC claimed that the BSPCA has not yet stopped removing blood from stray dogs for transfusion to other pets.

Earlier, BSPCA manager had alleged that the student surgeons were `useless’ and did not attend their duties.