In 2024, health services were provided to 20 thousand sick and injured animals.
In addition to Konya, Selcuk University Veterinary Faculty Animal Hospital, which also serves the surrounding provinces, provided health services to 20 thousand sick and injured animals in 2024.
Selcuk University Veterinary Faculty Animal Hospital, which provides 24/7 service with its modern equipment and expert team, offers services on an area of 11 thousand square meters with its emergency clinic, preliminary examination rooms, imaging units, operating rooms, laboratory, pharmacy and vaccine unit. In addition to farm animals such as calves, cows, sheep, goats, cats, dogs, exotic and caged animals are diagnosed and treated at the hospital.
Animal hospital offers many important surgical procedures, diagnosis, treatment, protection and control services with its expert staff (faculty member and veterinarian). Internal medicine, fertilization and artificial insemination, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery and emergency clinical services are provided in the hospital, there are also reanimation, hospitalization, quarantine and isolation units for postoperative patient care.
Stating that there has been an increase in the number of patients since 2013, Selcuk University Veterinary Faculty Animal Hospital Assistant Chief Physician Assoc. Dr. Fatma Satmiş drew attention to the fact that they have achieved a high success rate in treatments thanks to the modern equipment and expert staff of the hospital.
In 2024, approximately 3 thousand, 7 thousand for internal diseases, 5 thousand for surgery, 1.5 thousand patients came to the emergency department clinic, 5 thousand operations were performed, 4 thousand for vaccination, 500 animals came for chipping, Assoc. Dr. Sold said, "While an average of 19 thousand patients came to our hospital in 2019, our number of patients increased to 23 thousand in 2020 and 2021. Because the number of pet owners has increased during the pandemic. Cats make up 90 percent of the animals owned. Before the pandemic, farm animals were in the majority. Then our focus switched to pet animals. Exotic animals have also started to arrive a lot in recent years. Animals such as iguana, bird, rabbit, guinea pig, snake, turtle are coming. Sometimes even exotic animals that we meet for the first time can come," he said.
