Atatürk University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Animal Hospital, which is one of the largest and most comprehensive animal hospitals in its country and in the region with its experienced academic staff, well-equipped infrastructure and qualified personnel, provides services for the diagnosis and treatment of animal diseases 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

With its state-of-the-art modern devices and equipment, the Animal Hospital is a solution not only for the domestic animals brought from Erzurum and the central villages, but also for the pets brought from other districts and villages, and even from the provinces in the region, as well as adding added value to the country's livestock thanks to projects such as Mobile Animal Hospital and Let Calves Not Die.

The Animal Hospital, which received the 2020 Contribution to Local Development Award within the scope of the Higher Education Council 2020 Outstanding Achievement Awards with the project "Providing Mobile Animal Health Polyclinic and Education Services in the Rural", provides emergency services, internal polyclinics, gynecology and surgical services to the surrounding provinces as well as the city. In addition to farm animals such as goats,calves, cows and sheep, cage animals like cats and dogs  are also diagnosed and treated.

In addition to modern devices that successfully carry out processes such as tomography, radiology and echocardiography, biochemical, microbiological, virological, pathological and parasitological analyzes can be performed in qualified laboratories, and there are post-operative patient care, quarantine and isolation units for sick animals.

“Our aim is “Educating Qualified Veterinarians Alongside Community Service”

Stating that as the Rectorate, they provided significant financial support and contribution to the Animal Hospital, Rector Prof. Dr. Ömer Çomaklı said that the quality service of the Animal Hospital, which serves the people of the Eastern Anatolia Region, especially engaged in animal husbandry, will continue to increase.

Rector Çomaklı stated that the diagnosis and treatment services to be made in terms of animal health in the hospital are carried out meticulously and said: “We have a strong infrastructure especially in terms of operating room, x-ray and tomography. In fact, one of our goals here is to train quality, good veterinarians besides serving the community. Our faculty is one of the leading faculties of our country in terms of education and research quality. These opportunities also provide an important opportunity for the education of our students. Here, students complete their education with one-on-one patient examinations and treatments.

In addition, we visit the rural villages with our mobile clinic vehicle and take the hospital facilities to the villages and offer services such as examination, x-ray, blood analysis and operation if necessary, free of charge. As a university, we have opened our doors to our citizens. In particular, we continue to provide uninterrupted service to our citizens whenever and wherever needed in terms of agriculture and animal husbandry. Our only request from our citizens is to protect the animals with all necessary vaccinations and to take them to the hospital without wasting time when they get sick, then our physicians will take the right step.

CORPORATE COMMUNICATION DIRECTORATE – 30.01.2023