Sarojmani Poudel, Senior Conservation Officer of Bardiya National Park, said that during the two-day elephant health camp, 13 elephants from the park and one from NTNC will undergo health checks and their ingrown nails will be trimmed.
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A team of local and foreign doctors and technicians has begun examining the health of elephants at Hattisar, Thakurbaba Municipality-9, starting Tuesday.
The elephant health camp will run in Bardiya till Wednesday. The health check-up and nail trimming of the elephants will be carried out by an American veterinary doctor called KACF, doctors and technicians from Bardiya National Park and National Trust for Conservation (NTNC) Chitwan and Bardiya.
In the two-day elephant health camp, 13 elephants from the park and one from NTNC will be examined and the elephants' ingrown nails will be trimmed, said Sarojmani Poudel, Senior Conservation Officer of Bardiya National Park.
‘Elephants play an important role in the tourism activities and conservation management of the park,’ said Senior Conservation Officer Poudel, ‘We are conducting regular health checks on the elephants and a medical team from an American organization will also conduct additional health checks on the elephants.’
Kiran Raj Rijal, a veterinary technician at the National Trust for Nature Conservation, Sauraha, Chitwan, said that the elephant health camp has been operating in Chitwan for 8 years. ‘This is the fifth time that the elephant health camp program has been organized in Bardiya,’ he said, ‘The camp that started here will gradually reach Banke, Chitwan and Parsa.’
Rijal, a technician who takes elephant blood samples and takes them to Chitwan for testing, feeds the elephants deworming medicine, and also gives them tetanus and rabies vaccines, said.
Elephants bear their weight with their legs. If a baby elephant gets injured in another part of its body, it can be treated and put to work.
However, if something happens to its legs, it cannot walk. Therefore, experts say that the nails of elephants should be trimmed regularly to prevent any problems in their legs. The work of trimming elephant nails has been done since ancient times. However, it used to take a lot of time. The technicians participating in the camp believe that trimming nails has become easier since the exchange of knowledge between technicians from both countries.
