DOHA: Qatar’s Meat and Livestock Company — Widam — says slaughterhouses throughout the country are ready to receive sacrificial animals after Eid Al Adha prayers.
It urged the people to come by noon or evening to avoid crowding at the facility.
“Enough veterinary doctors are being mobilised to check sacrificial animals, meat and workers to meet demands of citizens and expatriates at slaughterhouse,” Abdurrahman Mohammad Al Khiyarain, CEO, Widam, told Qatar News Agency. The capacity of each slaughterhouse is 180 animals per hour and operation continue during Eid from 5am to 6pm, he added.
The company has a team of veterinarians to check animals before and after slaughter to ensure they are free from any disease, said Al Khiyarain.
The Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning will coordinate meat quality.
Additional veterinarians are being deployed to check animals at traders’ shelters until they reach consumers.
The Ministry of Environment also checks animals and the Consumer Protection Department monitors the entire process of slaughtering to ensure consumers get safe meat.
Al Khiyarain urged the people to buy sacrificial animals at noon or at evening on first day of Eid to avoid huge crowd that usually occure just after Eid prayers.
Enough stocks of animals will be available during Eid days and slaughterhouses will be open from 5am to 6pm.
Australian sheep will be available at Widam outlets at QR360 per head, including slaughtering charges. Prices of subsided sheep for citizens are available (Syrian at QR1,150 and Jordanian at QR1,050) until the last day of Eid.
Subsidy on Arab-bred animals are limited to Ramadan and Eid Al Adha. However, during the remaining months, the company offers small stocks of Syrian meat because of high prices. Syrian sheep are imported on monthly basis and the company focuses on selling meat stock imported from Australia, India, Pakistan, Somalia and Sudan during the year.
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