Supreme Court Orders Legal Right for Veterinarians to Prescribe Animal Medicine

Kathmandu. The Supreme Court has ordered to ensure the legal right of veterinarians to recommend animal medicine. On Friday, a joint bench of Supreme Court Justices Mahesh Sharma Paudel and Meghraj Pokharel issued a directive order in the name of the Government of Nepal on Jestha 18, 083, stating that the government should promptly amend the Medicine Act, 2035, to provide veterinarians with the legal right to recommend animal medicine as per the law. The Supreme Court made this decision in response to a writ petition filed by the then President of the Nepal Veterinary Association, Dr. Shital Kaji Shrestha....