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.

Erubu     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Siraj Oyewale     Fola Consultant     Matthew Babaoye     Ilorin.Info     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Igosun     IHS     Lotus Bank     Toyin Saraki     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Bilikisu Gambari     Yusuf Mubarak     Fatimat Saliu     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     KWSIEC     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Offa Metropolitan Club     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Albert Ogunsola     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Centre For Digital Economy     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Iqra Books     Babajide Ajayi     Ayo Salami     Owode Market     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Rihanat Ajia     Maigida Soludero Transit     Erin-ile     Mazars Consulting     John Dara     Kazeem Oladepo     Bolaji Abdullahi     Quareeb     Balogun Ajikobi     Seed Technologies     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Yakubu Danladi     Sunday Popo-Ola     Sodiya     Kola Olota     Abdulfatai Baakini     Raimi Iyanda     Suleiman Ajadi     Valsolar     Olusola Saraki     Adeniyi Ojo     Lateef Fagbemi     Ado Bayero     Issa Baba     Ilorin Airport     Rashidi Yekini     NNPP     Jimoh Bashir     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Kishira     Kolade Solagberu     Senate     Presidential Election     JAMB     Government High School Adeta     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Kunle Suleiman     Abubakar Baba     A.E. Afolabi     Isa Aremu     CCT     Ahmad Uthman     Shaaba Lafiagi     Kayode Ogunlowo     Segun Ogunsola    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Admiralty Villa     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     ASKOMP     Eleyele     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Oloje     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Jelili Yusuf     Esinrogunjo     Emir Of Yashikira     Yekini Adio     Valsolar Consortium     Gbemisola Saraki     Alapado     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Lawal Jimoh     New Model Police Station     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Abdulfatai Baakini     Florence Saraki     Fatimat Saliu     FOMWAN     Democracy Day     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Abdulkadir Orire     Omu-aran     Abdulkarim Adisa     Kola Olota     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Laolu Saraki     Okala Baba     Guber Aspirant     Moses Afolayan     Ahmad Ali     Ajakaye     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Simon Sayomi     Rasheed Jimoh     Funmilayo Oniwa     Tunji Folami     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Harmony Holdings     Adeleke Ogungbe     Abdulkareem Alabi     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Maryam Nurudeen     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Police Commissioner     Manzuma     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Bashirat Bola Bello     Ijakadi     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     AbdulRauf Keji     Share     Sola Saraki University     Amosa     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Yakub Lai Gobir     Chief Imam Of Offa     Lithium     Village Alive Development Association     Ibrahim Abikan     Solomon Edoja     Abdullahi Atanda     Ubandawaki     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Maimunat Oniyangi     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa