The ‘overworking’ Makueni County governor Kivutha Kibwana has trained veterinary officers on effective disease surveillance and reporting.
In a workshop aimed at improving disease reporting across the county using a web-based surveillance system, the governor said that the farmers are set to benefit.
He said that the training is geared towards empowering the officers to effectively use the Kenya Animal Biosurveillance System(KABS) to track diseases in animals and take necessary actions.
“KABS is a lightweight mobile data collection application supporting disease surveillance programs within Kenya. It supports an extended goal of emplacing a full-featured syndromic surveillance system that leverages a mobile-based data collection and web-based reporting system for improved animal and human disease monitoring and detection,” he said.
The County further flagged off veterinary surgical instruments to Sub -Counties veterinary teams for surgical procedures in the field.
