Patients in danger as hospital runs out of anti-snake venom

The Snake chew remedy Centre in Kaltungo, Gombe nation, has run out of anti-snake venom, its scientific Officer, Dr Abubakar Balla, has said.

Balla disclosed on Monday in Gombe that the centre has no unmarried dose of the anti-snake venom for the time being.
He stated that the state of affairs has caused the dying of many sufferers, who have been unable to get admission to remedy.
“In can also on my own, we’ve got admitted 270 people bitten by snakes.
“The worst part of the story is that maximum of the sufferers that come to the health facility can not afford N25,000 for one vile of anti-snake venom, and maximum of them died because of snake poison,” he stated.
He stated that it was hard to treat sufferers without the anti snake venom, adding that “the simplest treatment is non-stop blood transfusion to dilute the poison and forestall it from circulating, which isn’t clean and it desires money additionally.”
The reputable said that people in the area have evolved phobia of going to their farms, as maximum instances of snake bites took place on farmlands.
Balla said that even though the Federal Ministry of fitness have been alerted at the hassle, officials there had knowledgeable the centre that there has been no money to purchase the drugs for now.
“i am attractive to the authority concerned as a matter of urgency to deliver the drugs because human beings are loss of life, ” he stated.
Kaltungo Snake chew remedy Centre presents offerings to sufferers of snake bites from states inside the North-East and Jigawa.