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- According to a report of the Animal Health Service to which Citizens have had access, in the TRACES database there is no registered exchange of CATAD origin, however, the Councilor for Health, Francisco Calderón, assured in plenary that 202 adoptions had been made to other countries in a year.

Cartagena, Wednesday, September 20.

Citizens have denounced today the obstacles and impediments with which they are finding to try to verify the number of animals ceded for adoption to other countries by the Center of Reception and Treatment of Domestic Animals (CATAD).

Citizens have recalled that in the plenary session of June 2016, the Councilor of the area of ​​Quality of Life and Health assured Citizens' questions that the number of animals ceded for adoption to other countries was 202;

however, according to a report sent to the orange formation of the Animal Health Service, belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture, reveals that in the TRACES database, from which health certificates are issued, "there is no recorded exchange with origin in CATAD, therefore, there are no documents in this regard. "

The TRACES system is a veterinary computer system established by the European Union which allows the exchange of information on imports and movements within the EU territory of live animals and facilitates the issuing of veterinary certificates to the authorities of third countries or sanitary of the animals.

This system ensures that an animal travels from an authorized place and is inspected at the origin by a veterinarian state inspector of the OCA, the Regional Agricultural Office, (which depends on the Ministry of Agriculture), to which the zoo's origin.

The TRACES system is necessary, among other things, to identify the animal and to inspect its health conditions and to verify that the means of transport is subject to the current regulations.

"We were surprised that from the Animal Health Service we are told that there is no record of any exchange from CATAD, when Mr. Calderón assured in plenary that more than 200 animals had been adopted in a year," he said. Manuel Padín who asks, "how are these international adoptions being made, whether there is an error, whether it is being done irregularly, or whether they are using a different formula to effect these movements of live animals."

"We have many doubts of what can be happening in the CATAD, and although we have since June requesting clarifications both the councilman responsible for Health, Francisco Calderón, and the Animal Health Service, we have not obtained any response," lamented Manuel Padín, who has promised to continue inquiring "until he knows the truth".

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena