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THE VETERINARY SERVICES AND VETERINARY COUNCIL OF GHANA The first Veterinary Surgeon credited with establishing the present day Veterinary Services Directorate (Captain W.P. Beal) arrived in the Gold Coast in May 1909 at the request of the Colonial Government. The Department was at that time, placed under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health until 1920 when it was separated from the Department of Health to form a separate Department. Since then, the Veterinary Services Directorate (VSD) has undergone a lot of metamorphosis culminating as a fully-fledged separate Directorate under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA). With the gradual increase in livestock and poultry production in the 1980s and early 1990s coupled with the need for improved Public Health support to the overall populace of Ghana, the Veterinary Surgeons’ Law was promulgated on 30th December 1992 as PNDC Law 305C with the primary aim of regulating and coordinating the practice of Veterinary Medicine in t

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