Knights Landing is a community of primarily migrant workers
who have been struggling to provide health care to both their human and animal
members. The Knights Landing One Healthy
Clinic with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is the first medical
clinic dedicated to providing both human medical and veterinary general
wellness services.
Clinics are held every 3rd Sunday of the
month. In January, the veterinary side
saw 40 dogs and 20 cats for general wellness exams. We provided our patients with preventative
medications such as vaccines and flea preventatives. You may be thinking that it’s too cold and
it’s not flea season. But, believe it or
not Knights Landing happens to be a hotspot for fleas and fleas are a year
round problem in most areas of California.
Through support from the Blum Center, UC Davis, we are able
to enhance the services we provide. In
the next few months, we will be building storage space for our equipment so UC
Davis veterinary students do not have to store the clinic equipment in their
homes and we are also purchasing a cat tent so we can examine cats in a safe
area away from dogs. I will be excited
to write in the next few months what the Knights Landing One Health Clinic will
look like.
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