UP’s Mamelodi Animal Health Clinic : in service of care and competence

Abstract

For more than a decade, the Mamelodi Animal Health Clinic has helped local residents to care for their pets. This primary care clinic on the University of Pretoria’s (UP’s) Mamelodi Campus is managed as a satellite of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital by the UP Faculty of Veterinary Science. Valuable services such as vaccinations and sterilisations are provided under the ethos “It takes nothing from a human to be kind to an animal”. The clinic, which was set up in 2011 by Dr Cherri Liebenberg, forms part of UP’s endeavours to provide services to communities situated around its campuses, as well as valuable hands-on clinical experience for its final-year Veterinary Science students.