3047. Practice in Yangon under RAVS

March 25, 2017

The Chairman
Myanmar Veterinary Council
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation
Bayint Naung Road, Corner of SayWah Set Yone Street, Myanmar
Fisheries Federation Compound, Gyoh Gone (West) Ward, Insein Township, Yangon


EXTENSION TO PRACTISE VETERINARY MEDICINE IN MYANMAR

1. I am Dr Sing Kong Yuen, aged 66 years. I am a private veterinary surgeon and founder of Toa Payoh Vets and Toa Payoh Vets @ Queen's Veterinary Surgery in Singapore. I am still practising in Singapore.

2. I write to request a 3-year extension of the licence to practise veterinary medicine in Myanmar under Royal Asia Veterinary Surgery (RAVS), Yangon.

3. My previous licence was from Dec 2, 2015 to Dec 1, 2016. The following were the periods I had worked in RAVS:
Dec 5 to 14, 2015 (10 days)
Jun 3 to 6, 2015 (4 days)
Sep 4 to 14, 2015 (11 days)
Oct 28 to Nov 2, 2015 (5 days)  

5. RAVS services done by me were

5.1 Diagnosis and treatment of diseases in dogs and cats mainly (Annex A).
5.2 Unusual bear case (Annex B).
5.2 Mentorship of the younger vets. (Annex C)
5.3 Business management of the vet practice. (Annex D).
5.4. Veterinary research to benefit vet students and pet owners (Annex E).







Some of the cases treated included the following:
5.1 Skin diseases in dogs,
5.2 Bone fracture operations (open reduction) in stray dogs
5.3 Bone fracture (closed reduction) in stray dogs and cats using Plaster of Paris cast.
5.4 Viral diseases in puppies
5.5 Heart worm disease in dogs
5.6 Transmissible venereal disease in dogs
5.7 Pyometra surgery in dogs and cats. Stump pyometra in cats.
5.8 Feline Urological Syndrome in cats
5.9 Perineal urethrostomy in cats
6.0 Z-plasty for wound surgery.
6.1 Perineal hernia repair

Mentorship
6.2 Training the younger vets of RAVS to be systematic in processes of diagnosis and treatment.
6.3.Training the younger vets to practise evidence-based medicine to aid in diagnosis and treatment of diseases by using blood testing and radiography.

Veterinary Management of RAVS
6.4 Advising computerisation of client database instead of manual records as RAVS sees more than
60 cases per day. Manual records to locate case cards were too slow and inefficient.
6.5 Advising computerisation of accounts using an inexpensive Microsoft Excel software instead of manual record.
6.6. Advising veterinary management such as working hours to retain staff and not to suffer burnt-out due to over work.
6.7 Advising an additional consultation room to speed up cases as RAVS had only one but had 3 vets working at one time. Today, it has two.

Veterinary Files From Myanmar
Shares veterinary case studies with other pet owners and vet students online. Many cases are from RAVS.


WhatsApp consultancy
6.8  Dr T T Aung sends images of interesting cases to me in Singapore and I offer some advices.
(Annex A).

Consultant to a bear case.
6.9  I flew to Yangon immediately when there was a bear case to be operated in RAVS. (Annex B).
A 4 year-old bear with sublingual mucoecoele (ranula). anaesthesia and surgery.

Employment of vets from Myanmar (Annex F)
command of English and practical knowledge of small animal veterinary medicine


In the past 15 years, I have had employed vets from Myanmar.
They include Drs Aye Min, Saw Thet Tun, Aye Min, Naing Aung Kyaw, Myat Su Mon Zaw, Hsu Mon Lwin.  Dr Aye Min and Dr Saw Thet Tun now have their own private practice in Yangon.




6. Giving back to veterinary industry
Be Kind To Pets Project
Veterinary Files from Myanmar

7  Yezin graduates in Singapore

3046. Myanmar Travels. Yangon to Bagan on Mar 12, 2017

Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Tiger Airways to Yangon
10-hr drive Yangon to Bagan.

Bullock carts going back as sun sets

Petrol station

Flower girl. Fragrance from these flowers are used to freshen the inside of the car. Lasts about one day.

Vendor sells fried quails, sparrows, chicken

3045. An 18-year-old red-eared slider had swollen eyes, breathing difficulty and white gums and tongues

Mar 7, 2016

"The other vet rejected me as he does not treat turtles," the man in his 50s had to look for another vet who treats turtles.
"How do you know Toa Payoh Vets treat turtles?" I asked.
"My son surfed the net and found your surgery."

So, here was a gasping red-eared slider. Every minute, he would open his mouth wide, tilt his head up to breathe in air.

"His tongue and gums are white," I showed the owner. "He has much fewer red blood cells or such cells do not have sufficient haemoglobin. Hence your slider is open-mouth breathing."

"He looks like he cannot survive," the man said.
"Chances are not good as we cannot do blood transfusion in turtles."

The slider had lost a lot of weight and appeared puffed up. The snow-white gums and tongue
indicated a severe loss of blood inside the body. Probably a burst artery leaking blood for the past 3 days.

3044. A 10-year-old Westie has smelly wet ears and itchy body

March 10, 2017

The owner was referred to me as her Westie's ears got worse, becoming wet and smelly. The Westie kept shaking her head. Consulted vets but no resolution. So she clipped bald and treated the skin disease with washes and spas. No use. Body odour. Keeps scratching. Paw licking.

Diagnosis: Generalised ringworm. The owner did not want a blood allergy test. Treating for ringworm and given anti-allergic diet.

3043. A carnivorous 20-year-old male red-eared slider has a painful fishy-smelly armpit

Feb 7, 2017

Day 2 of hospitalisation.
Necrotic abscessed tissues under the right armpit.

Fishy smell from a swelling in the right shoulder area. The slider could not swim properly with the
right arm.

DAY 1









Dr Daniel incised the swelling. Cheesy pus drained out partly. More inside the armpit was curretted out on Day 2.

DAY 2





 

 

DAY 3. Armpit wound is healing well after antibiotic injections SC Baytril 0.2 + Pred 0.01 ml in back limb on Day 1 and Day 2.










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