LUDHIANA,23.03.24-Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University is going to start an online Post Graduate Course on Veterinary Homeopathy. The course will be of 6 months duration and will cover 60 online lectures on various aspects of homeopathic medicine in five modules covering Basic Principles and Ethics, Homeopathic pharmacy, Basics of Homeopathic Material Medica, Remedy Selection and Repertorisation and Clinical Practice of Veterinary Homeopathy. It's pertinent to mention that Teaching Veterinary Hospital of the university is one of the busiest hospitals of north India catering to the livestock and companion animals of the Punjab and adjoining states. Nearly 33, 000 cases of different species are treated annually in this hospital using allopathic system of medicine. However, Homeopathic drugs are also frequently used in some of the acute and chronic diseases in consultation with the leading homeopaths. The course has been started keeping in view the growing role of alternative medicine especially homeopathy in the treatment of animals which has been found equally effective as it in human beings. On the other hand, cost of treatment also get reduced with homeopathy, which is also important with respect to the growing problem of antimicrobial residue (AMR) in the food chain, with the irrational use of antibiotics in animals. The course has also been designed to meet the urgent demand of those veterinary graduates who would like to extend their knowledge in Homoeopathy as an alternative medicine. To start this course, the university has collaborated with four eminent homeopaths from India and three renowned international homeopaths who have extensive experience in Veterinary homeopathy. The first batch will start from April, 2024.

Dr Inderjeet Singh, Vice Chancellor of the university congratulated the faculty members for this initiative and anticipated that this course will definitely improve the management of some chronic ailments in Veterinary medicine.