DVM in Africa

12/11/2023

What's your final exam routine?

I try to stick to the below schedule; if more time is needed (which means I didn't plan it correctly or I got disturbed by unforeseen things), I'll take extra time in the morning by starting earlier. In emergencies, I even start at 02:00.

I'm really trying to have a healthy study period with still space for other activities and obligations.

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I get up between 4:30-5:00
Do all my household chores and get ready for the day

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Start studying at 06:00 up to 12:00
Based on my fitness level, concentration and feeling of that day, I alternate study with mini-breaks to rest, power nap, yoga, make / drink coffee & chocolate etc.

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12:00 swimming
Going for a refreshing and low-risk injury activity to clear my mind and body

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12:45
Lunch with something light but fresh and powerful. Like salad with nuts and fresh juice

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13:15 study again
Allow for a few short breaks in between

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17:00 end of the study day, mostly watching videos of the content I studied that day to revise

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18:00 rounding off the day
Do household chores, relax, make dinner, have dinner, do other tasks that need to be done

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20:30 bed time

17/05/2023

And what did you do this Wednesday night?




DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

16/05/2023

Public health risks versus just 'risks' and the WHO can do what they want on a global scale? 🤔

Watch and read links provided... What do you think?

Free high res poster and text book downloads, https://drjohncampbell.co.uk/Article by Article Compilation of Proposed Amendments to the International Health ...

27/02/2023

Such a lovely idea!

Take your pet's waterbowl and collar with tag and use it as a plant bowl to honour his/her life 💕🐾🌈

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DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

12/11/2022

Blood was drawn from two hyena puppies to determine their s*x. ♂️♀️

On this photo you can see how odd the external s*x organs are.

Both male and female have these pseudopen*ses and are pseudohermaphrodites. They are undistinguishable on external appearance and the only way to determine their s*x is through a blood test.

This puppy is a female!♀️

Females give birth through this pseudopen*s.😳
When male and female mate they need to "dock' their speudopen*ses to transfer s***m.

Credits
A great mixed animal vet with extensive knowledge and experience of wildlife medicine. 🦏🦒🐘🐆🦁
And on top is a wonderful person with a great wife!





DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

29/10/2022

It's starting... 😳

Keep calm,
It's time for final exams 🌱






DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

15/10/2022

Finals coming up, yet still classes and contineous assessment tests that are happening.. 😶‍🌫️😱

4 weeks of fulltime oral, written and practical exams.

Stopped counting the pages, notes and books that need to be studied 🙉
It is soooooo much.
The journey of becoming a vet 🩺🐾👩🏼‍⚕️🌱🧡







DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

29/09/2022

What an accomplishment. An example for many African countries to follow.

New Zealand places a complete BAN against live animal exports!

The NSPCA celebrates the ban of live animal exports in New Zealand which will take effect from April 2023. This comes two years after a live export disaster that claimed the lives of 6000 cattle and 41 crew members after the vessel left New Zealand.

Early this morning, New Zealand’s animal welfare amendment bill was signed into law. The Bill states that, “ A person must not apply for, and the Director-General must not issue, an animal welfare export certificate for the export of cattle, deer, goats, or sheep by ship. “ on or after 30 April 2023.

This is a MASSIVE victory in the world of animal welfare. Earlier this year, more than 15,000 sheep drowned after a live export ship sank in Sudan, and in 2020 a capsize killed 14,000 sheep. In 2021, 3,000 cattle were stranded at sea for three months, leaving many dead, dying, starving or extremely dehydrated. On board live export vessels, live animals are at sea for extended periods of time and it is an arduous journey as they are subjected to severe heat stress, overcrowding, living in an accumulation of their own excrements, and other welfare concerns.

More and more countries around the world, including Australia, are recognising the extreme cruelty and suffering that animals are subjected to on board live export vessels, and their Governments are putting an end to that suffering.

It is time for South Africa to follow suit! It is time for the South African Government to acknowledge the suffering our sheep are subjected to on board live export vessels. The NSPCA continues to fight to end the live export of sheep from South Africa.

“We will never give up and we cherish the vision of one day being able to say that live export in South Africa is banned!” - Marcelle Meredith, Executive Director.

20/09/2022

Tail amputation, after a car accident this doggy was quite lucky. Only tail amputation is what was needed.





DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

19/09/2022

Maxilla K9 removal; practising on a cadaver...🦷

Note that the only instruments available were a scalpel blade and scalpel balde holder... Realising the structures and hardness, especially the cortical bone 💪🏻

Simply not possible to do a proper removal like this.
But, offers great practise!

Www.Veterinarydentistry.net
Is very helpful, with clear description and videos!




DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

03/09/2022

🐎African Horse Sickness;

African horse sickness is a devastating disease that causes great suffering and many fatalities amongst horses in sub-Saharan Africa. It is caused by nine different serotypes of the orbivirus African horse sickness virus (AHSV) and it is spread by Culicoid midges.

It is now known that the disease is caused by nine distinct serotypes of African horse sickness virus (AHSV), a virus with a multicomponent linear double stranded RNA (dsRNA) genome belonging to the Orbivirus genus of the family Reoviridae 🔬

The most severe form of AHS, with mortality rates exceeding 95%, is the pulmonary form or “dunkop” (thin head). This is an acute febrile disease accompanied by mild depression, sweating, spasmodic coughing, anorexia and respiratory distress, with a possible frothy nasal discharge in the terminal stages.

The cardiac form or “dikkop” (thick head), with a mortality of about 50%, is characterized by fever, swelling of the head, neck and supraorbital fossae and sometimes, petechial hemorrhages in the eyes. The mildest form of AHS is generally not fatal and is accompanied by a low-grade fever, often more pronounced in the afternoon, anorexia, depression and congestion of the mucous membranes.
The most common form, with a 70% mortality rate, is a mix of the pulmonary and cardiac forms.

Challenging circumstances for vets in Africa is vaccine availability at the moment

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6783979/ #:~:text=African%20horse%20sickness%20is%20a,is%20spread%20by%20Culicoid%20midges.

https://www.da.org.za/2022/04/da-urges-minister-didiza-to-engage-private-sector-to-address-african-horse-sickness-vaccine-shortages





DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

25/08/2022

Happy to prevent reproductive tract infections, - cancer and other - disease. Happy to reduce mammary gland cancer and extremely happy to prevent potentially 67.000 puppies being born into this world the coming six years.

We should all spay and neuter! Responsible owners do 🐾💞
Every spay/neuter is one, and they all count!



DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

24/08/2022

Such a simple and loving idea 🧡🐾

Some Dutch veterinary clinics place this sign which states "when these candles burn, someone is saying goodbye to their pet'

In honour and respect to the animal and the people supporting the transition to the rainbow bridge. 🌈

Scientific study shows that your pet needs you when passing, don't let them be alone when taking their last breaths 💞



DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

29/07/2022

Another afternoon in paradise 👩🏼‍⚕️🩻⚕️🏥💗🐾

Suspected feline leukemia, spondylosis in a dog, horse hind limb wound, facial bite cat, cat castration, hindlimb lameness dog, obstipated kitten, suspected tryps in a dog and lots of fun 🌱🧡🌍

🐱🐶🐴 Mixed animal clinic and all cats are ginger today



DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

27/07/2022

LOOOOOOVVVVEEEE the continent 🌱🧡🌍

Wildlife classes are amazing. Bringing them into practise is even better. Just at my doorstep 💗

PS for the beginning trackers amongst us, which footprint do you see?



DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

11/07/2022

Had another cool internship. Learned a lot about synchronisation using CIDR and all about reproduction management at a dairy farm.🐄🐄🐄

It's such a wonderful feeling to be welcomed by everybody 😘



DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

08/07/2022

Great to meet this amazing team of eight vet students on a mission. ⚕️🐾📚💕🌍

Read all about them and their work via Vet Books for Africa



DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

22/05/2022

What you see in the picture is saving the life of not only the queen but also preventing suffering of thousands of lives the coming years. ❤️

🫶🏻 Great thanks to those who spay and neuter!

💕🐾Spay & neuter please 🐾💕

It's the ONLY effective and humane way to solve real problems such as overcrowding, killing millions at shelters, transmitting disease and tremendous suffering. 🌱🧡🌍

13/05/2022

🐕He just lets us know he DOESNT like the e-collar 🫢😏😆

17/04/2022

🐾💕How can we make spaying obligatory for each and every (future) pet owner? And ofcourse for each and every street dog or cat. 💕🐾

Spaying prevents so much suffering. It's the ONLY way to really change the world and reduce the amount of unwanted dogs.

⚠️1 female dog produces potential 67.000 ‼️puppies in just 6 years and it's happening right now!

Why isn't there a standard daily spay campaign at each and every vetschool in the world. Win-win-win situations are easily created.

✅Students get experience,
✅positive exposure for the universities and
✅tremendous contribution to society.
This all fits in an One Health approach.

Combining the spay with some basic vaccination (while the dog is there in any case) makes just even more 'wins'
✅rabies, minimal a
✅5in1, a simple
✅ deworming and
✅ antiparasite treatment.

So why are we not executing this??
Can someone explain?

We can start today, each and every one of us. One spay is prevention of 67.000 unwanted dogs on this planet.

🧡🌱Thank you to those who do already, you are a hero with a heart 😘

Follow us on Instagram for even more www.instagram.com/dvm_africa

DVM Africa👩🏼‍⚕️🐾⚕🌱🧡

11/04/2022

💕Happy National Pet Day 🐾

Let's keep on spaying and neutering as much as we can!

This beautiful dog has been thrown out by her (so called) owners. Because she jumped the 80cm fence she was locked up behind the whole day. She didn't cause any damage or bothered other people, she was just bored. And wanted to walk around.

Anyways, she ended up on the street as a house dog, got r***d multiple times and ended up mega pregnant. Lost more than 10kg and got bitten often.

Someone took care of her as in guiding the pregnancy and making sure she was allright. Yet she was still on the streets. She gave birth on a very busy parkinglot to 7 beautiful (multiple fathered) puppies.

Someone couldn't see these newborns get ridden over by all that traffic and took all of them in their home. A forever home 🏡
All puppies have found a forever home too. This super star mother has a new, spayed and loving life with a couple of other doggy friends 🧡🌱