Brooke Hospital for Animals Junior Club

Egypt

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Map of areas where Brooke works in Egypt.

Here is a very sweet story about a
donkey who did not want to leave
one of our clinics in Egypt.

The donkey was an inpatient in one of
our clinics for 4 weeks while being
treated for severe saddle wounds. The
donkey was discharged once his wounds
had heeled and his owner came to
collect him.
But the donkey did not want to go!
The owner asked for help to get the
donkey out of the clinic, so four people
helped him to carry the donkey out into
the street. A few meters up the road the
donkey managed to break free from his
owner and returned at a gallop to his
place in the clinic, next to the other
donkeys. You couldn’t blame him, as he
had kind friendly people looking after
him, plenty of fresh food and water, clean
bedding, and a nice place to rest away
from the sun.
But the best thing of all no work and
no beatings while he was there!

In 1934 the Brooke Hospital for Animals was established in Cairo and the main
hospital at Zein El-Abdein now stands on the original site of the Old War Horse
Memorial Hospital. (That is what we were called before we became Brooke Hospital
for Animals.) With facilities for 76 sick equines, including eight isolation boxes, an
operating theatre, a dispensary and medicine store, a farrier’s shop, three paddocks
and seven mobile teams, the clinic is Brooke Hospital's largest in Egypt and
thoroughly equipped to treat almost any injury or disease.
The Cairo clinic provides veterinary treatment to over 100,000 working equine animals
a year. The horses, that pull the tourist carriages and the donkeys that transport goods
around the city benefit from the care and attention provided by Brooke. Equines in need
of treatment are brought to the clinic, or to one of the mobile teams who travel to the
outskirts of the city.

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