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In my travels around South East Asia I usually try to find and visit a veterinary practice. On my way to the bank ATM on the second day I came across without looking for it the Rebadulla Animal Hospital and off course I just had to go inside. It was difficult to see how the premises could qualify in any way to be called “hospital.” Dr Ellen Aboo (a Filipino qualified vet) was sitting in reception, which was also the consulting room, and she made me feel very welcome and very humble. I will never again grumble about poor facilities or lack of equipment. She said she was very happy in her job despite having no Xray machine, no gaseous anaesthetic and a microscope that was so inadequate she seldom used it.
The main problems in the island dogs according to Ellen were Rabies, Ehrlichia, Distemper and Parvo (not necessarily in that order) with which she coped with great good humour. She preferred to work in Boracay despite the poor facilities than in any of the other five clinics spread throughout the Philippines including Manila that were owned by her veterinarian boss.
Rabies vaccination (Rabisin) is done every year for 300 Pesos (£3) with the full range of vaccination including rabies is 800 pesos (£8). She spays a bitch using an ACP and atropine as a premedication and then Zoletil, which is a combination of ketamine and diazepam derivatives given intramuscularly and charges between 3,000 pesos and 5,500 pesos depending on size. She is not only a small animal vet but attends the few farm animals on the island and was just leaving the premises to AI sows with semen collected from one of two boars at an AI centre. She gasped when I told her I had previously looked after an AI centre in the UK with more than 60 boars at stud.