Animals in Central Zoo to get hospital

LALITPUR, Aug 13 - With a view to providing proper medical treatment to scores of captive wild animals and species, Central Zoo is going to construct a wild animal hospital inside the zoo located at Jawalakhel. Sarita Gyawali, acting director of the Central Zoo, informed that the animal hospital, for ... ...first time, was in the offing so as to cater utmost health care facilities to all the captive animals and species. "We have completed all necessary preparations for this and will start the work next week," said Gyawali.The hospital to be constructed inside the zoo will be equipped with pathology lab, X-ray facilities, post mortem section and medicine department. "The hospital will probably come into operation within five to six months," she added.The hospital will provide health check-up and treatment to the captive animals and species in order to keep them safe from any kind of serious diseases and avert their untimely death.Marwell Zoo of Norway has provided Rs 800,000 to construct the hospital building while the Central Zoo will bear the remaining cost of around Rs 1.7 million, according to Gyawali.Due to lack of awareness on the health needs of animals, the issue had been put on the backburner, she said, adding that such a hospital would protect animals and species from the verge of extinction.The Central Zoo, which has one veterinary doctor and three assistants, even consults and brings foreign doctors to inspect health condition of the captive animals. And most of the captive animals in the zoo are suffering from obesity-due to lack of enough roaming spaces-- mild illnesses, according to zoo officials.Established by Rana Prime Minister Juddha Sumsher Rana on the occasion of Bhote Jatra in 1932 as his personal collection of wild animals, reptiles and birds, the zoo now houses over 1000 captive wild animals and 113 types of species.

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