Posted on 12/19/2017 2:43:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
While hospital care for race horses is highly sophisticated and available worldwide, the same is not the case for camels. A new hospital has been opened in Dubai with state-of-the-art equipment especially made for them.
A $10.9 million (€9.21 million) camel hospital has opened in Al Marmoum, Dubai with state of the art treatment on a par with that offered for racehorses.
Director of the hospital Mohamed Al Bulooshi said "There are a lot of equine hospitals because horses have existed for centuries as have their races but for camels, no."
"We are very interested in preserving our heritage," he said. "And we found that we must care for camels, not only by breeding and raising them but also by being able to medically treat them."
The hospital has found it difficult to find equipment specific to treating camels and as a result, much of it has been made to order. There is an operating theater and an x-ray room with MRI, and CAT scan facilities are to be installed next year.
There is also a small racetrack where the camels can be rehabilitated.
Staff have been recruited to work at the hospital from the UK and Mexico.
There are also plans to carry out medical research to improve understanding of camel biology.
There was a local animal refuge that had one that had been raised being treated well. Nice animal, actually. As with burros, the ones most people meet have been treated pretty mean, they aren’t inherently unpleasant. Just an anecdotal observation.
That’s going around.
Thought you lost your eyesight.
Just before the Civil War, the US Army was testing camels out West for the cavalry.
At the start of the war, the unit was recalled, sans mounts, so the camels were set loose.
Supposedly, there were camel sightings into 1890s.
Next it will be a goat maternity ward for goats.
It is easier for a hyperdermic needle to go through a camel than for a rich man from Dubai to enter into the kingdom of God.
soory Typo for “hypodermic”
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