Moura J A, Bedoya M, Agudelo M P
Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura, Brasilia, DF, Brasil.
Rev Sci Tech. 2004 Apr;23(1):79-93; discussion 391-401.
Growing budget restrictions in many countries have meant that official Veterinary Services cannot assume responsibility for any new activities. The natural reaction is to turn to private veterinary services to provide the support needed to strengthen the control and surveillance of priority diseases and thereby support the development of the livestock sector and the establishment of safe international trade. In this context, official Veterinary Services must work together with private veterinarians, delegating various technical animal health activities, so that they may focus their efforts on those tasks that cannot be delegated: standardisation, control, auditing, general system co-ordination, epidemiological surveillance, etc., as well as organising veterinary policy in order to make best use of budget resources. For these relations to be efficient, a dynamic, two-way epidemiological information mechanism must be created, whereby private veterinarians periodically keep governments informed, on the basis of an agreed methodology. Moreover, the official Veterinary Services must systematically transmit information on List A and B diseases of the OIE (World organisation for animal health), and perform detailed analyses of epidemiologically significant events. The article proposes the establishment of relations between public and private veterinary services as a way in which to provide the livestock sector with the health and hygiene conditions that are necessary for effective disease control, which in turn provides greater security for international trade and increased consumer protection.
许多国家日益严格的预算限制意味着官方兽医服务机构无法承担任何新活动的责任。自然的反应是求助于私人兽医服务机构，以提供加强重点疾病控制和监测所需的支持，从而支持畜牧业发展并建立安全的国际贸易。在这种情况下，官方兽医服务机构必须与私人兽医合作，将各种动物卫生技术活动委托给他们，以便能够将精力集中在那些无法委托的任务上：标准化、控制、审计、总体系统协调、流行病学监测等，以及制定兽医政策以充分利用预算资源。为了使这些关系有效，必须建立一个动态的双向流行病学信息机制，据此私人兽医按照商定的方法定期向政府通报情况。此外，官方兽医服务机构必须系统地传播有关世界动物卫生组织（OIE）A类和B类疾病的信息，并对具有流行病学意义的事件进行详细分析。本文提议建立公共和私人兽医服务机构之间的关系，以此为畜牧业提供有效疾病控制所需的健康和卫生条件，进而为国际贸易提供更大保障并加强消费者保护。
