Ilorin Residents Cry Out For Help As Snakes Take Over City

Date: 2018-07-08

RESIDENTS of Ilorin, the Kwara state capital have expressed concerns and worries over recent upsurge in the quantity of snakes around the town. The development according to Theguardian sources showed that at least three patients are at present receiving treatments at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), from snake bites. Besides, the state's General Hospital along Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Ilorin, has some patients on admission over snakebites related cases.

A teacher at the University of Ilorin, department of Geography, Abdulraheem Jimoh attributed the increase in the number of snakes to heavy rains that have led to the dislodgement of the snakes from their natural habitat.

But a source under condition of anonymity at the Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA), said the development could not be divorced from unkempt and bushy environments.

One of the patients on admission at the UITH was said to have suffered a high degree of snakebite while attempting to pluck foliage from a 'Dogonyaro' tree for preparation of malaria herbs.

Former Chairman of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (PCN), Kwara state chapter, Babatunde Samuel deplored the scarcity of anti snake vaccines in Nigeria, noting that the development could engender high mortality/morbidity rate in persons bitten by the reptile.

Samuel, who apart from seeing the vaccines as very exorbitant for the peasants, "who are most prone to the attacks," said the need to have the certification of the NAFDAC before they could be dispensed has further made the venoms very scarce to procure, "especially during emergency needs."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Yusuf Aiyedun     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Ahman Patigi     Women Radio     Olatunde Jare     Alaiye     Ayodele Shittu     Awoye     Michael Nzekwe     Sunday Otokiti     Shehu Salau     Ajayi Okasanmi     Alaaya     Rotimi Atere     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Doyin Agbamu     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Oloyede     AGILE Programme     Egbejila     David Adesina     Admiralty Villa     Fareedah Dankaka     Ifelodun     Yekini Adio     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Lateef Alagbonsi     Lateef Fagbemi     Laolu Saraki     Jide Ashonibare     Kwara Consultative Forum     Mutawalle     Olohungbebe     Kazeem Oladepo     Tafida Of Kaiama     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Pius Abioje     Sabi     Adaramaja     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Popo-Igbonna     Ado Bayero     Olatunji Ibrahim     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Pakata Patriots     Aliyu Sabi     Wahab Egbewole     Usman Rifun     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Facemasks     Kwha.gov.ng     Salihu Yahaya     Olatomiwa Williams     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Yahaya Dumoye     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Moshood Bakare     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Patigi Regatta     Offa Poly     Naira Redesign     Durosinlohun Kawu     Mohammed Halidu     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Moremi High School     Salau Kabiru Abdullahi     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Ilorin Muslim Community     Ijakadi     Ibrahim Akaje     Idowu Aremu     Olatunji Bamgbola     Abdul-Rahoof Bello    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

NULGE     Kwara Polytechnic     Jide Ashonibare     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Okiki     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     AbdulHamid Adi     Salihu Jibril Garbi     School Of Nursing     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     2023 Elections     Odolaye Aremu     Teachers Specific Allowance     Olabanji Orilonishe     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Ibrahim Mashood     Adesoye College     Tafidan Kaiama     Jani Ibrahim     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Harrison Osauwagboe     Hussein Oloyede     Ajidagba     Shehu Adaramaja     Christopher Odetunde     Bukola Saraki     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Federal Allocation     Moremi High School     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Saraki     March 18     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Share/Tsaragi     Sidikat Alaya     Mike Omotosho     Sunset Workers     Dan Masanin     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Mustapha Akanbi     Amule     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Olaiya Lawal     Awoye     Aro Yahaya     Unilorin     SSA Youth Engagement     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Baba Issa     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Ayobami Seriki     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Oyedepo     Bayer AG     V.O. Abioye     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Abubakar Imam     CUTI     Kola Shittu     Toyosi Thomas     Baba Issa Awoye     FERMA     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Maigidasanma     Bio Ibrahim     Dankaka     Saka Balikis Kehinde     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Eleyele     IFK     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     Kale Kawu     Senate