Posted on March 26, 2020
Dear Clients of the OVAH During the lockdown, from midnight on 26 March till midnight on 16 April, the OVAH will only render essential services, including those to alleviate animal pain and suffering and to provide life-saving treatment. Our farm animal veterinarians will also be available to...
Posted on June 02, 2017
Prof Marthinus Hartman's breakthrough in the field of veterinary surgery was inspired by procedures carried out on humans when he became the first veterinary surgeon in South Africa to perform laparoscopic sterilisation on lions.
Posted on May 15, 2017
Electric fencing, although economical and effective, often result in the electrocution of non-target species. Among them are tortoises, and they are rapidly moving up on the Cites list of endangered animals.
Posted on August 04, 2016
A new reality/documentary TV series on SABC 3 titled Frontier Vets, depicts the daily lives of six South African soon-to-be-qualified veterinary students from the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Veterinary Science.
Posted on October 22, 2015
Equine surgery has its fair share of challenges, but thanks to the well-equipped Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH), equine surgeons such as Dr Arnold Mahne are able to do their utmost for sick and injured horses.
Posted on November 30, 2009
On Monday morning, the Veterinary Hospital of the Faculty of Veterinary Science reached yet another milestone when a Warmblood was the first horse patient to undergo a CT-scan
Posted on March 27, 2008
On Thursday 27 March 2007, the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH), of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, officially celebrated the recent commissioning of a computed radiography system, CT scanner and gamma camera
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