KANO GOV. TO CONSTRUCT A VETERINARY LAB. IN GWALE LOCAL GOV.

 

The Kano State Agro-Pastoral Development Project (KSADP), has awarded a contract for construction of a Veterinary Reference laboratory at Gwale Veterinary Clinic in the suburb of the city value N68 million.

“The laboratory plays key role in animal health protection by preventing and controlling livestock diseases.

Alhaji  Ameen Yassar is the custodian of the project’s communication, he  said the contract  was awarded to an indigenous compact, Golden Ripples Construction Company Nigeria Limited, with a completion period of about one year.

Speaking State Project Coordinator, KSADP  Ibrahim Muhammad, described  the project as the first of its kind in Northern Nigeria generally.

Veterinary orientation laboratories have chief implications to human health because of the animal to human transmission of diseases.

The project was intended to securing  livestock and human health in sight of the large population of livestock and the mounting stipulate for animal resultant foods in the state.