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Daltonganj, July 18: The conservator of forest Palamu Kumar Ashish has written a letter today to the director of the animal husbandry department Ranchi to spare the services of Bokaro-based senior veterinary officer Dr Ajay Kumar to act as a vet doctor in emergency for treatment of the sick and limping male sub-adult tusker in the Balumath range. Lagatar24.com has a copy of this letter.
In the letter, Kumar Ashish has tried to convince the Director of the animal husbandry to send Dr Ajay on deputation in Balumath as there is a limping tusker in need of urgent medical attention.
Sources said Dr Ajay has a reputation of being a dedicated vet doctor of the wildlife as well as captive animals like that of the Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park Ormanjhi.
It was Dr Ajay who had overseen the population of four foxes rise to 12 in the Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park Ormanjhi but unfortunately since his departure from this park on getting transferred, the fox population in this park is now zero which meant a hundred percent fatality.
Kumar Ashish in his letter has mentioned that Dr Ajay has good expertise and competency in dealing with sick or injured elephants and there is a record of his rendering medical services to the wildlife in the Palamu Tiger Reserve.
“We have found a sick and limping male sub-adult tusker having acute problem in walking down and that has to be set right and this Dr Ajay can be of great use,” Ashish apprised the director of the animal husbandry in the letter.
A wildlife-trained touring veterinary officer R Jojo is currently treating this sick tusker with ripe jackfruit laced with higher antibiotics within which it devours.
