Click to play videoNew Delhi: In the Nandankana Zoo in Orissa a tigress is struggling to survive after she was shot by poachers more than two months back.
Sita (as she is known in the Zoo) is rapidly deteriorating. Now the Nandankana authorities made an appeal to veterinarians in the hope that an expert can save the tigress.
Sita who has been in agony ever since, is admitted in the Nandankanan Veterinary Hospital. For the seven-year-old, the hospital is now her home as she has been here since the last two months.
The Royal Bengal tigress had suffered eleven gunshots and one bullet is still stuck in her body.
Though the best vets in the state are treating her, it cannot be ascertained whether she would survive.
"Her condition is very critical. She cannot move her posterior portion and the bed sores have compounded her condition,” says Veterinary Surgeon of the Nandankanan Zoo, Dr Ranjit Samantaray.
Meanwhile, the Nandankanan authorities are getting in touch with veterinary experts in India as well as abroad. And more than a lakh of rupees have already been spent despite the fact that the tigress has not really improved.
"I want to make an appeal to all medical experts who can share their expertise to save the tiger. They may please approach us and we will accordingly precede if we find that the treatment will help her to recover,” says Director of the Nandankanan Zoo, Ajit Patnaik.
Help the Nandankanan authorities to save 'Sita', write to:
Director, Nandankanan
Mayur Bhawan, Sahid nagar.
Bhubaneswar-751007
or e-mail at : ajitpattnaik@hotmail.com
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