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in this section:  The Spay Panama mobile spay team ready for a busy day Spay Panama visits Panama City's Corregimiento of 24 de Diciembre photos and story by Spay Panama The
University of Panama, the Health Ministry, the Community Council and
Spay/Panama organized a sterilization blitz on May 18, 2008, to
control the number of homeless animals. The Honorable Nelson
Vergara, elected council official was the major force of the project;
at all times, he took actions to fix the operation center and
coordinate the appointments for sterilizations. The Health Ministry
coordinated the vaccinations, disposal of organic material and the
ads of the sterilization blitz. Spay/Panama was responsible for the
operations. The University of Panama was the center coordinator of
all the players.
Spay/Panama was able to neuter, deworm, spray against fleas and ticks, clean ears and give vitamin injections to a total of 130 animals (108 female dogs + 13 male dogs + 9 cats) at no cost thanks to the support of the Marchig Animal Welfare Trust. The surgical tables and lamps were taken to the center on Friday afternoon. At the crack of dawn of May 18, the rest of the equipment was brought in. The work of Spay/Panama went smoothly thanks to the marvelous support of our faithful volunteers Alberto, Rebeca, Olga, Daniel and Anibal that are entrusted to restock, pack, transport and install all the equipment at the centers for the doctors to start operating with no delays. We have many more excellent volunteers that are ready to assist. The
people started coming early in the morning with their pets.
The Honorable Councilman Nelson Vergara was kind enough to install a toilet --- it did not have a roof or a door, but what an enormous relief to have it! Five vets operated: Doctors Carlos Gueulette, René Guajardo, Letty de Guajardo, Augusto Barragán and Raquel Fuster. Under
the cooperation agreement with the University of Panama, 10 vet
students worked as assistants to Spay/Panama veterinarians: Ernesto,
Amarilys, Juan Francisco, Neysi, Andrea, Keyla, Angel, Gloria,
Dasmenia and Kristel.
Under our working arrangements with World Vets, Christie came down from New York to work with us. Pet food was distributed to the guardians who brought their pets to be neutered.
Above we see the vet student Amarilys giving Science Diet cat food donated by Pet World. This blitz was so successful that plans are being made to repeat the event on June 15th. To put the long-term effect of this spay campaign into perspective, let it be known that by operating on 108 female dogs that day, the possibility of bringing to this world approximately 540 puppies has been eliminated this year (estimating that each female dog can have a litter of 5 pups: 108 x 5 = 540) and the following year, the possibility of having 2,160 more puppies has been elimated (108 female dogs + 324 daughters = 432 female dogs x 5 = 2,160). And each year, those numbers go up.
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