Every animal has a history worth keeping

What it does

Veterinary Clinic & Livestock Health

Veterinary work in Tanzania spans two very different jobs — a dog in a Dar es Salaam consulting room and a herd of two hundred cattle in a village. Both need the same underlying record: what animal, what was found, what was given, at what dose, and when the next intervention is due. Neither survives being kept in a notebook.

• Animal records by species, with owner, breed, age and identification
• Herd and flock records for livestock keepers, with individual animals inside them
• Consultation notes, diagnosis and treatment given
• Drug administration with dose, route, batch and withdrawal period
• Vaccination schedules with automatic SMS reminders to owners
• Deworming, dipping and spraying programmes
• Artificial insemination and breeding records, with calving expectations
• Farm visit scheduling and route planning for field officers
• Drug and vaccine stock with batch, expiry and cold chain notes
• Laboratory sample submission and results against the animal
• Billing for consultations, procedures and drugs, cash or on account

Tanzania

Veterinary practice under Tanzanian rules

• Withdrawal periods — milk and meat withdrawal recorded and flagged at treatment, which protects the farmer and the food chain.
• TMDA veterinary drugs — batch and supplier records for every veterinary medicine received and administered.
• Veterinary Council registration — practitioner registration held against the staff who prescribe and treat.
• Notifiable disease — suspected cases flagged with the reporting record attached.
• Cold chain — vaccine storage and transport conditions recorded against the batch.