Liphook Equine Hospital has always maintained a strict and effective isolation area for when horses need to be admitted to the hospital whilst suffering from a potentially contagious disease (such as strangles). The facilities and protocols are very strict and despite regular equine visitors to the isolation facility, there has never been a single instance of these isolation facilities failing to fully contain any infectious disease at our hospital.
Each horse is admitted under strict conditions and all areas are rigorously disinfected once the horse leaves. Within the isolation unit each horse has two stables, one of which is utilised solely to allow the staff to dress appropriately in protective clothing including boiler suit, lab coats, wellies, hairnets and where appropriate face masks. Prior to leaving the area all contaminated clothing is removed and the staff member changes into clean clothes and disinfects. If required members of staff will shower prior to handling any other horses.
For further information on strangles, please refer to https://liphookequinehospital.co.uk/wp-conte…/…/strangles.pdf
