From the Bedford Highway Animal Hospital site, www.bedfordvet.com
January 2010
In response to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti yesterday, we are offering nail trims in support of the Red Cross relief effort. Nail trims will be done for $15. One-hundred percent of the money raised will be donated. Please help!
Also be aware that the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association is placing its Canadian Veterinary Reserve in stand-by alert status to be ready to deploy to Haiti if requested by the government of Canada.The CVR consists of a roster of 400 mainly private practice, volunteer veterinarians from across Canada. The CVR works in partnership with governments to provide medical expertise for animals in large-scale disasters and emergencies. CVR Reservists can provide a broad range of disaster veterinary medical services including emergency care and assessment for food and companion animals on a mass casualty basis.
This is one of those awesome little things that is always nice to discover. Not being a vet or a tech, I can't access the section on the CVMA site about this great initiative, but I did find an article in the Canadian Veterinary Journal, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2359486/. As a follow up to that article, according to the contracts page of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, they did wind up partnering with this innovative initiative.
What time is it? It is never time to shine such a lovely light under a bushell, particularly if they are always in need of resources.
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