The National Drug Authority (NDA) has deployed officials in Ssembabule district over the death of 30 cows on farms near President Yoweri Museveni’s farm in Kisozi.
National Drug Authority officials led by Dr Jeanne Muhinda observe one of the cows at Kakoma farm. Photo By Dismus Buregyeya by
NDA Information Officer, Dr Jeanne Muhinda, confirmed the development and attributed the problem to drug resistant ticks and misuse of drugs.
Muhinda said the ticks naturally gained resistance and passed on a generation of resistant parasites in the affected areas in Ssembabule, Gomba and Mpigi.
“The problem of resistant ticks had been here for a long time but good practices are gradually slowing down the resistance,” she said.
However when Dr Muhinda visited the Kikoma farm in Mabindo on Sunday she noted that the farm staff had fed 159 cows on disinfectants leading their death.
At least 30 cows out of the 159 cows which drunk the disinfectant had died by press time. The farm manager, Eddie Ssetuba told The New Vision that he bought the disinfectant from Kampala thinking that it would treat worms.
National Drug Authority officials led by Dr Jeanne Muhinda observe one of the cows at Kakoma farm. Photo by
By Dismus Buregyeya, The New Vision
