Indian Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying publishes (SVTGs)

The Standard Veterinary Treatment Guidelines (SVTGs) for cattle and poultry were published by the Indian Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD). The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is supporting this effort, which is a partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Standardizing veterinary care across India is the goal of the recommendations.

SVTGs: The general paradigm of animal diseases is still in its infancy. The following treatment frameworks will help determine rational treatment.

• SVTGs are intended for use by the target audiences of veterinarians and other animal health care givers for the purposes of enhancing animal health and veterinary medicine.
• It is a creation of 80 professionals of veterinary careers, most of whom work in the field.
• Come in digital form for ease of access with mobile devices, all in a manual format.
• Includes diseases in the large and small ruminants, poultry, pigs, camels, equines, mithun, and yaks.
• They comprised information on disease treatment, including the cause, characteristics encompassing clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, and the preventive measures.
• Introduces the culturally appropriate validated ethnoveterinary practices for animal health management.
• Covers treatment of most of the viral, bacterial, and parasitic diseases affecting poultry.
• Stresses on the principles of biosecurity as the means of preventing the dissemination of pathogens.
• It presents different vaccination schedules depending on each type of poultry.
• Liberates the laid-out general guide on the AMR by telling people how to rightly use the antibiotics.
• Reduces illegitimate use or drug abuse by extending standardized intervention procedures.
• Used to rate and determine the quality of veterinary medicines that inform the budget allocation.