Neither the Government hospitals nor private hospitals in Hyderabad and districts have a fool proof system of data gathering, sharing and reporting, which could make snakebite incidents easy to track and treat
For the past year or so, the FOSS has been advocating the need to make notification of snake bites mandatory. “By rough estimates, we can say that there are 66,000 snake bite cases annually in India. But we do not have any concrete idea of the exact prevalence of snake bite cases in each State,” says FOSS Secretary Avinash
seven-year-old girl died and her grandfather was in a critical condition after a snake bit them while they were sleeping on the floor in their house in Zapti Janakampalle village of Nagireddypet mandal late on Monday night.
Unnao: In a bizarre incident where a woman was bitten by a snake in her house, her husband caught the reptile and put it in a bottle. He took the woman to the hospital, along with the snake in the bottle. The woman has been admitted to the district hospital where she is being treated. When […]
