01.11.2016.
The Day of Veterinary Service marked
The Day of Veterinary Service – 1st November, has been marked today with a ceremonial gathering at the Military Medical Academy. The ceremony was attended by Nenad Neric, State Secretary at the Ministry of Defence, and Ivan Bosnjak, State Secretary at the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy, representatives of the Military Health Department, the Military Medical Academy, the Veterinary Department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Chamber of Serbia, Serbian Veterinary Society, members of the military veterinary service and other guests.Serbia and its armed forces have reason to be proud of their veterinary service and a 165-year long tradition. The very information that it was founded back in 1851 and that it has existed continuously to date, causes all due respect – State Secretary Neric said. He said that the military veterinary service today is a modern logistic service and a sure support of the Serbian Armed Forces, while its functional organization fulfils all the tasks set before it.
Neric mentioned, as the most recent example of the work of that service, action to control nodular dermatitis in Serbia this year, when all the government bodies evaluated the work of that military service with high marks.
Deputy Chief of the Military Health Department, Colonel Ugljesa Jovicic, highlighted as significant in the work of the Military Veterinary Service, among other things, the year 2005 when, after the reorganization, the service was functionally organised and integrated with the Medical Services. He also singled out the year 2014, because it was then that the service has shown that it can respond to tasks in all the three missions of the Armed Forces and at the end of that year, the vets, together with the medics, began to go to the UN peacekeeping missions.
Colonel Radivoje Andjelkovic, Head of the Department for Veterinary Medicine, which is the highest professional body of that service, spoke about 165 years of the service. He pointed out that in the future it is necessary to ensure technical and technological modernization of the capacities of the service for more active participation in all the three missions of the Armed Forces and better integration with other state agencies to create new forms of cooperation.Director of the Veterinary Department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, Dr Nenad Petrovic, referring to the recent nodular dermatitis control action in the territory of Serbia, pointed out commendations of the European Union that we were among few countries that managed very quickly to mobilize civil and military sector and local self-government to stop the movement of the infection in one third of the country. According to him, there was no other country in the world that managed to do so.
It was determined that the Day of Veterinary Service is celebrated on 1st November. On this day, in 1851, by the decree of Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic, Jovan Teodorovic, a veterinary physician from Novi Sad, was appointed the first veterinary military physician.
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