Sanitation, Management, Infrastructure, and Space Constraints in Indian Veterinary Institutions: Implications for Animal and Public Health in the Surat Context

Naisha Athavia

Abstract: Veterinary institutions play a pivotal role at the Human Animal-environment nexus. With poor sanitation, space planning, infection control governance and waste management, the impacts are not just on animal morbidity and mortality, but also on the risk to personal health and wellbeing, the risk to clients, risk of environmental contamination and antimicrobial resistance. This paper reworks an early draft that focuses on place and makes it into a defendable narrative review. The analysis does not stand as an audit field study of Surat, due to the lack of auditable field data in the source draft. It, on the other hand, reviews the official Indian data, Indian biomedical-waste guidelines and peer-reviewed veterinary infection-control publications to evaluate the impact that poor sanitation, management, infrastructure and crowding are likely to have on animal and public health in an urban city like Surat with a dense population. Lack of adequate segregation of infectious patients, insufficient hand hygiene, inadequate environmental cleaning, improper sharing, handling of unsafe sharps and biomedical wastes can allow surfaces, equipment, staff work areas and patient pathways to be contaminated as evidenced by the reviewed information. Indian policy documents also reveal that the veterinary institutions are specifically included in the rules for Biomedical waste and also that veterinary services are indeed big business in India and in Gujarat too. The paper suggests that poor veterinary service conditions can also substantially exacerbate zoonotic dangers, healthcare-associated dangers, occupation-related injury or treatment failure. Measures being taking include the establishment of triage and isolation pathways, a secure hygiene infrastructure, standard operating procedures, waste segregation, staff training and regular audits undertaken at local level.

Keywords: veterinary sanitation, One Health, zoonoses, infection control, biomedical waste, veterinary hospitals, Surat, India

How to Cite?: Naisha Athavia, "Sanitation, Management, Infrastructure, and Space Constraints in Indian Veterinary Institutions: Implications for Animal and Public Health in the Surat Context", Volume 15 Issue 6, June 2026, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 1438-1442, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR26626201100, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR26626201100

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