{"id":1833,"date":"2023-05-31T09:49:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2023\/05\/31\/provincial-veterinary-laboratory-ncpvl\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T09:49:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:49:38","slug":"provincial-veterinary-laboratory-ncpvl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2023\/05\/31\/provincial-veterinary-laboratory-ncpvl\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial Veterinary Laboratory (NCPVL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Provincial Veterinary Laboratory (NCPVL)<\/h4>\n<p>The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs , Rural Development and Land Reform\u2019s Provincial Veterinary Laboratory (NCPVL)\u00a0renders diagnostic, laboratory and investigative services including\u00a0epidemiological studies that generate data to support the control of animal diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Laboratory is an accredited facility since 2017, which boasts of 5 accredited test methods, namely;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sheep scab identification,<\/li>\n<li>Anthrax,<\/li>\n<li>Campylobacter fetus,<\/li>\n<li>Trichomonas fetus ,<\/li>\n<li>Brucella abortus screening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NCPVL has been confirmed as a member of the South African Veterinary Council (SAVC).<\/p>\n<p>The South African Veterinary Council (SAVC) is the regulatory body for the Veterinary and para-veterinary professions in South Africa and has a statutory duty to determine scientific and ethical standards of professional conduct and education. It also advances public and animal health through quality veterinary services for all. Source: savc.org.za<\/p>\n<p>This means that the NCPVL facility is a member of the council and therefore subjected to be inspected within a six-year cycle. By virtue of being a member &#8211; there will be a random selection of 250 facilities within the country that will be inspected each year. Furthermore, the facility must inform the council of any change of physical address with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the laboratory is one of the two government laboratories in the country, which is using the laboratory information management system(LIMS) which allows notification of clients on receipt of their samples\u00a0 ,generation of test reports and charge manager software that has resulted in improved revenue collection and turnaround time for the delivery of invoices to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Location for NCPVL<\/p>\n<p>Kimberley State Veterinary Office<\/p>\n<p><strong>Old Mint Building, De Beers, Kimberley, 8300<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Telephone: 087 630 0351<\/p>\n<p>email:ncvetlab@daerl.co.za<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deputy Director<\/strong>: Dr Wonderful Shumba<\/p>\n<p>Contact: 087 630 0349<\/p>\n<p>email:shumba@daerl.gov.za<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laboratory Manager<\/strong>: Dr Sithatshisiwe Dube<\/p>\n<p>email:sdube@daerl.gov.za<\/p>\n<p><strong>New lab building (Sample Reception)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pearl Matross<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical Administrator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lucia Manong<\/p>\n<p><strong>Waste management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bennette Mathamela<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parasitology section<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Control Veterinary Technologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anna-elizabeth van Zyl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serology section<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nomkosi Mathebula<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veterinary Technologists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nomkosi Mathebula<\/p>\n<p>email:nmathebula@daerl.co.za<\/p>\n<p>Olifile Pilane<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laboratory Assistants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kelebogile Baijang<\/p>\n<p>email:kbaijang@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data Capturing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Lebeko<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provincial Veterinary Laboratory (NCPVL) The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs , Rural Development and Land Reform\u2019s Provincial Veterinary Laboratory (NCPVL)\u00a0renders diagnostic, laboratory and investigative services including\u00a0epidemiological studies that generate data to support the control of animal diseases. Laboratory is an accredited facility since 2017, which boasts of 5 accredited test methods, namely; Sheep<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2023\/05\/31\/provincial-veterinary-laboratory-ncpvl\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}