A 30-year-old man engaged on a fishing boat died after being bitten by a snake in Palghar on Sunday, taking the snakebite toll to 3 within the final 4 months within the district.
Birju Mandal, working in Wadrai village, had visited Mahim Primary Health Center (PHC) on September 17 with the grievance of a rat chew at 6.30pm. As medical doctors noticed that the situation of the affected person was deteriorating, he was given an anti-venom injection. However, when no enchancment was seen, PHC medical doctors referred Mandal to Palghar Rural Hospital however he quickly succumbed.
Taluka well being officer Dr Tanveer Sheikh informed the Free Press Journal that the affected person was late in reaching the power after the chew. The remedy given to the affected person was in anticipation of a toxic snake chew.
A seven-year-old woman succumbed to snakebite in tribal Mokhada on May 16. On July 27, a 28-year-old girl was bitten by a snake and she or he died inside seven hours. The district has been tormented by insufficient anti-venom injections and informal method of the medical establishments.
Last month, although, two sufferers have been saved on the identical PHC after being bitten by snakes in separate incidents. While a 14-year-old bitten by a standard krait on August 1 may walk home inside two days after remedy, a 22-year-old man was revived after cardiopulmonary resuscitation after he approached the PHC on his inside an hour of being bitten by a cobra in a area.
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Published on: Monday, September 18, 2023, 06:42 PM IST
