Background
From a One Health perspective, animal slaughter is a critical point where human health, animal health and environmental protection meet.
Mahyoro Town Council, in south-western Uganda, is a mainly rural area with high levels of poverty, where slaughter facilities are inadequate and veterinary inspections insufficient. The risk of diseases passing from animals to people, either directly or through the consumption of animal products, is high. The misuse of antibiotics is also widespread.

Project objectives
The project aims to improve hygiene and sanitary conditions in the slaughter and sale of meat, to reduce the risk of disease transmission from animals to slaughterers and to the community, to raise awareness of the correct use of antibiotics in order to fight antimicrobial resistance, and to increase awareness of occupational risks through training and the use of PPE.

How we work
These objectives will be pursued through training courses for "informal" slaughterers, local leaders and health workers from the 18 villages across the area.

Two educational days will also be organised for about 400 primary and secondary school students in Mahyoro.

The project is supported by, and involves, important local figures: the sisters who run the schools and a small hospital in Mahyoro, the mayor of Mahyoro Town Council, and the veterinarian Dr Salvatory Abigaba.

The courses will also introduce the use of ozone as a sanitiser, and samples will be collected as part of a research project promoted by Intermed ETS with the University of Brescia. The research aims to assess how effective ozone is even in poor hygiene conditions.

Lessons will be translated into the local language, as will the training handouts given to participants.

Project team:
Dr Manuela Fazia – Veterinarian
Dr Tatiana Pedrazzi – Pharmacologist, PhD student, University of Brescia
Dr Salvatory Abigaba – Ugandan veterinarian

Under the patronage of the Order of Veterinarians of Brescia, the Order of Veterinarians of Vercelli and Biella, ATS Brescia and the Italian Society of Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Support the project
You can support the project with a voluntary donation by bank transfer. Every contribution, however small, is concrete help to improve public health and food safety in rural communities.

Account holder: InterMed ETS
BPER Banca
Via Antonio Gramsci 15, Brescia 25122
IBAN: IT81W0538711206000049328966
Payment reference: Progetto Uganda