Help our Animal Hospital Survive Covid-19 Crisis

It has been a tough time for everyone, but we are happy to report that no more TOLFA staff have been sick and, although we are still observing extra safety measures, things have nearly returned to ‘normal’ here in Rajasthan.

In the new year we are even expecting more tourists to return as international flights and visas open up. This will help our local economy and make life easier for the street animals as more cafes and hotels operate, providing the leftover food many animals rely upon.

September and October this year have been our busiest months ever receiving 4,430 emergency calls in those two months alone! We are working harder than ever before to help the animals in need and YOUR SUPPORT is what allows us to do that.

We have also been busy with our Anti Rabies and Sterilisation project – between January and September 2021 we have sterilised almost 1,500 dogs to humanely control the population, and we have vaccinated 1,676 dogs against the deadly rabies disease – protecting people as well as animals.

Thank you once again for supporting TOLFA during these difficult and unpredictable times.

Since our last report in March the Coronavirus situation exploded in India and has had a devastating affect on the country. Many hundreds of thousands of people have suffered from the virus and there have been a tragic number of deaths. The infrastructure crumbled and many had to suffer alone, unable to find hospital beds or basic medical supplies.

The knock-on effect for TOLFA was also desperate. We had to bring back emergency working measures, reduce our services and make sure we could provide the best care possible for our staff that became infected with Covid-19. So far 25% of our staff have had the virus. Fortunately, none of them required hospitalisation.

We have struggled again with sourcing the medicines and medical consumables (syringes, IV equipment etc) we need as many of these were diverted to human hospitals. Fortunately now all of our staff have received their first vaccinations, as they are recognised as frontline workers and the numbers of cases in our area is slowly going down. However there is expected to be a third wave coming in a couple of months, so we have to recognise that that this nightmare won’t be over any time soon.

This is why your support of this project, to keep our animal hospital going during this worldwide pandemic, is so vitally important.

The animals are still out there, and we still receive 40-50 calls for rescue every day. Our staff have been brilliant throughout all of this – the very epitome of ‘teamwork’, but they cannot do it with you giving your support so we can pay for the food and medicines the animals need to recover.

Please find with this report some photos of our staff and some animals recently helped at TOLFA

Thank you for everything you have done, and please continue supporting us!