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A nine-year-old boy died after being bitten by a snake in Maharashtra‘s Thane district, police mentioned on Thursday, reported the PTI.
The boy was enjoying outdoors his home at Saralgaon in Murbad space on Wednesday when he suffered the snake chunk, an official from Murbad police station advised the PTI.
The boy was rushed to the general public well being centre in Saralgaon the place medical doctors declared him introduced useless, the official mentioned, as per the PTI.
Local police despatched the physique to a authorities hospital for postmortem and registered a case of unintended demise, he added.
In an one other incident in May, two kids have misplaced their lives on account of snakebites in separate incidents in Thane and Palghar districts, an official had earlier mentioned.
A 15-year-old boy from Kalyan taluka in Thane succumbed to a snakebite on Thursday, whereas a seven-year-old lady met the identical destiny within the tribal Mokhada space of Palghar earlier this week, reported PTI quoting officers.
Meanwhile as per a report in June, fourteen folks died in not less than 1,118 instances of snake bites in Maharashtra’s Raigad district within the final 17 months, officers mentioned.
In gentle of the rise in incidents of snake chunk, folks have been suggested to go for fast medical intervention on the nearest hospital as a substitute of consulting quacks or utilizing conventional cures, an official from the civil hospital mentioned.
A complete of 1,118 instances of snake chunk had been reported within the district from January 1, 2022 to June 3 this yr, and 14 individuals have died in these incidents, he mentioned.
Most of the instances had been reported in Alibag, Panvel, Khalapur, Mahad and Mangaon talukas, the official mentioned, including that there are 14 places within the district the place therapy for snake chunk is offered.
In January the Bombay High Court had directed the Maharashtra state authorities to think about grievances of petitioners to supply compensation to others, other than farm land homeowners, who succumb to snake bites. The HC bench of Acting Chief Justice S V Gangapurwala and Justice Sandeep Marne disposed of PIL filed by Vaibhav Kulkarni of NGO Nisarga Vidnyan Sanstha looking for monetary assist to all heirs of victims of snake and scorpion bites alleging “discrimination” within the state’s coverage that gives assist to agriculturists solely.
(with PTI inputs)
