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People's Dispensary For Sick Animals (Sa)
Address:
Tarentaal Road, Bridgetown, Athlone, 7800 Cape Town - Western
Telephone:
021-6385134
Fax:
021-6384096
Description
The PDSA (SA) ensures that we effectively deliver a service to poorer communities. We have three hospitals which are based in Soweto, Bridgetown (Cape Town) and in George, with three satellite clinics. We also have nine mobile units which travel to poorer communities and provide our welfare service from the mobile unit. This aspect of our work is vital since poorer people often do not have money to spend on transporting a sick animal and will not, in any case, be able to use public transport to get their animals to our hospital.
We treat at least 235 000 animals annually that would otherwise not have received the care they require. We do not receive any government subsidy and are entirely dependent on donations to support our work.
Keywords
Education, George, Capetown, Soweto, Donations, Skin Treatments, Vaccination, Non Profit Organisations, Orthopaedic Surgery, Deworming, All Correctional Surgery, Opthalmic Corrections, Sterilizing Of Animals, Burn CorrectionsCompany description
What the PDSA does and how we differ from other animal welfare service providers. The PDSA (SA) is a welfare veterinary health care service provider – much like a welfare hospital for people – with the differences being that our clients are animals whose owners cannot afford private veterinary healthcare and we do not receive any government subsidy. The PDSA does not engage in prosecution cases or in the re-homing of animals (as other animal welfare organizations do) rather, we focus our resources in the provision of the best welfare veterinary health care service possible for animals whose owners are from poorer communities. We strongly emphasize and insist on the sterilization of animals – to prevent unwanted litters and to improve the health of the adult animal – we sterilize animals on a daily basis in each of our hospitals and undertake spay campaigns in areas that are not serviced by welfare veterinary service organizations. The PDSA (SA)’s achievements include the fact that we treat at least 235 000 companion animals each year. Without our intervention these animals would not have received any veterinary treatment. We are dependent on our own fundraising activities and do not receive any government funding. To raise sufficient funding to cover all our veterinary costs it is necessary for the PDSA to engage in various fundraising activities.
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