No compensation for livestock farmers for smallpox due to understaffing
The incidents of infections and new outbreaks of smallpox in livestock farms of East Macedonia and Thrace are relatively diluted in the last period of time. This was stressed by the Director of Veterinary Medicine of the EMTH, Nikos Fotinias, speaking to ERT, hoping that the low temperatures of the last few days, and the next few months of winter, will weaken the smallpox virus.
"The slower the virus disappears, the sooner it will reappear during the summer season, which puts us on alert now on how to manage the situation. These days we have also had the recruitment of some Veterinarians and Administrative staff, and we are expecting another 15 Veterinarians, who will be distributed throughout the EM-TH. What we anticipate from the new year is the completion of the procedures for the payment of compensation," Fotinias stressed.
In addition, he added that the compensation paid to AM-TH ranges at 30%.
It should be noted that in Rodopi the compensation has not been paid to the farmers, due to the lack of veterinary and administrative staff, with the increased infections and their management work absorbing time from the veterinarians in Rodopi, resulting in no progress in completing and sending the relevant documents for the payment of compensation to the competent ministry.
