They request that veterinary medicine be included as a core activity of the national health system

The Confederation of State Veterinary Trade Unions (Fesvet) has registered its claims to the DR project with which to create and organize the state public health monitoring network, which in addition to the monitoring network, will also establish and organize national reference laboratories, with high technical qualifications and particularly recognized prestige, who They will advise and support the functions assigned to the network, and who, if necessary, will coordinate other networks of complementary laboratories, both public and private.

From the association, they urge “the Ministry of Health to promptly incorporate the benefits of veterinary medicine for public health into the SNS, considering it necessary to increase guarantees with regard to the protection and promotion of health, and we offer ourselves to collaborate to bring this to an end.”

First of all, Fesvet claims that “Promote public veterinary health, is understood as the set of actions aimed at protecting the health of the population from biological, physical, chemical or food hazards arising from animal life or its products, which are developed in the areas of food safety, health, animal welfare and the environment. Health and health promotion through training, health information, research and teaching in public health and health management.

In addition, they ask the group “Integration and development of veterinary public health skills Within the range of services of the public health system through the corresponding regional health services, in accordance with the provisions of Article 8. of the Public Health Act and the Act on Quality and Coherence in the National Health System.

Integration of the veterinarian into the national public health system

Fesvet demands that “all veterinarians carrying out official health control activities be included in the field of public health and veterinary medicine. And the creation of a professional health category, homogeneous throughout the national sphere, which would develop all control activities official veterinary health protection, from initial productionwith a particular focus on the prevention and control of animal diseases, to Food quality and post-primary food production; Protection safeguards against zoonotic Food and non-food, and in general the prevention of diseases in humans from the dangers of animal life and its products.

Likewise they ask to believe their specializations and the registration of professionals and work centers in the National Registry, As it happens in other branches of health.

They demand that Fesvet “create and develop two of their own disciplines, within the health sciences-specialized training model set forth in the Health Professions Regulation Law, one for veterinary animal research and the other for veterinary public health and society, in order to ensure the highest quality of citizens in protecting their health.”

It is also important, they add, to “integrate it into the interdisciplinary disciplines of Analysis, clinical biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, parasitology, and radiation pharmacology. Also, the full consideration of the work centers of all veterinarians are health centers, because they are centers of information and epidemiological control and an essential barrier to maintaining public health in society.

“The national health system cannot continue to dismiss the benefits of veterinary public health, and if it really wants to improve personnel policy in monitoring public health, it must take into account the added value that the veterinary profession can provide to the preventive health system, in all its fields,” they concluded. till then.