SRI LANKA
Our veterinary hospital is in Sri Lanka and this is where most of the action takes place. Hit us up if you would like to make an appointment or report a sick or injured street animal to us.
THINGS TO REMEMBER
We are a veterinary hospital, not a shelter. We do not admit healthy animals.
We provide veterinary care for animals between Matara and Tangalle. There may be exceptions, see here for advice.
As one of the only veterinary hospitals on the island, we are often inundated. Please be mindful and patient.
Email or phone is the best method of contact for all animal-related enquiries.
Please read our FAQs to see if your question is answered there; it will help our tired and overworked brains a lot!
WECare Hospital, 179a Kuruduwaththa Rd, Matara, Sri Lanka
Contact us
Report an animal in need
help@wecareworldwide.org.uk
General Enquiries
info@wecareworldwide.org.uk
Call Us
+94 (0)41 225 9390
WECare Hospital,
179A Kurunduwatta Road,
Thekkawatta, Kapugama,
Devinuwara, Southern Province,
Sri Lanka
United Kingdom
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![This week’s #TransformationTuesday is a DRAMATIC one – if you love the drama, get a cuppa and settle in, baby. Ya ready?? ☕
Love is a ~2 year old street cat from Dikwella who was brought in on 4th July by her guardians when she started having difficulty breathing after eating some fish the day before, so we suspected she had a bone stuck 🐟😲
On arrival, Love was really struggling to breathe, so we gave her oxygen before doing chest X-rays, where nothing abnormal was found. She coughed up rice and a fish bone when we examined her mouth, but we couldn’t find any further foreign bodies. Laryngoscope examination showed inflamed laryngeal folds so we think the fish bones/s had been sat there irritating/piercing the larynx (the folds at the top of the windpipe which stop food going down when you swallow) for 24 hours, causing them to swell up, blocking the windpipe. Unfortunately, despite one bone being out, the damage was done at this point 😬
And then…Love then tried to die on us. We brought her back to life with chest compressions and intubated her to help her breathe. Then Love’s heart rate then dropped from 100 to 60, she developed a gallop and her breathing was very shallow, so @janeythevet opted to place an emergency tracheostomy tube (one that’s placed via the neck straight into the windpipe), which we had to improvise as we don’t have all the fancy bits we usually have at home...! 😮 (Janey even said this was probably the most hectic on-the-spot emergency she’s dealt with in her career…! “We knew we were losing her and had to quickly do it. I really thought we were going to lose her!”)
Thankfully we didn’t lose her and Love improved almost immediately, but took almost 2.5 hours to recover properly before getting up and about. Nurses Pia and Jo took Love to their house for overnight care, as the tube needs regular cleaning and suctioning, to get rid of any mucus that may be blocking it. As our tube was improvised, it needed checking more often than usual, so the nurses were getting up every hour to check on her 😴
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