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.

Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Omu-aran     Lateef Fagbemi     Ogbondoroko     Muhammadu Gobir     Hajj     Cassava Growers\' Association     Kwara 2019     Wasiu Onidugbe     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Bukola Saraki     Ibrahim Gambari     Budo Egba     Ibrahim Oniye     Ibrahim Abikan     Eruku     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Gobir Organization Foundation     National Pilot     Arca Santa     Kwara NIPR     Madawaki     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Gwanara     Isiaka Alikinla     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Lanre Badmus     Ayodele Shittu     Aminat Ahmed     Segun Abifarin     Shao     BECE     2023 Elections     Muazam Nayaya     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Lai Gobir     Ilorin Innovation Hub     SSA Youth     Woro     Assayomo     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Edu     Mansur Alfanla     Bello Oyedepo     Post-utme     Islamic Development Bank     Wahab Abayawo     Funmi Salau     ARMTI     Obayomi Azeez     Gbenga Adebayo     Shehu Salau     Gbugbu International Market     Reuben Paraje     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Ahmad Uthman     Malete     Eghe Igbinehin     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Saraki     Diagnostic Centre     Yekini Adio     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Kumbi Titilope     Yahaya Dumoye     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Aisha Gobir     Okasanmi Ajayi     Bolakale Ayo     Saba Mamman Daniel     Owo Arugbo     Amuda Aluko     Eleja Taiwo Banu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Kayode Ogunlowo     Omu-aran     Innocent Okoye     Saduki Lafiagi     Folorunsho Alao     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Aiyedun     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Oba Abdulraheem     Yakubu Gobir     Osinbajo     Aminat Ahmed     Centre For Digital Economy     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Razak Atunwa     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Gambari     IF-K     Kwarareports.com     Saliu Mustapha     Baba Isale     CCEPE     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Surajudeen Akanbi     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Yakub Ali-Agan     Ahmed Bayero     Labour Party     Yomi Adeboye     Quarry Royal Valley     Fatimoh Lawal     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     Democracy Day     TVC Female National Debate     Akeem Olatunji     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Adeola Abraham     Wahab Agbaje     Rafiu Ajakaye     Nurudeen Mohammed     Bolakale Ayo     Lanre Badmus     Lanre Jimoh     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Iyaloja-General     Garba Dogo     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Just Event Online     Okin High School     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Christopher Ayeni     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Onilu     The Herald     Prince Bola Ajibola     Olaosebikan     Idowu Aremu     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Oniwa     Saheed Popoola     Emir Of Ilorin     Modibo Kawu     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Tunji Moronfoye     Danladi     A.O. Belgore     Kwara Central     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Haliru Dantoro     Kwara Politics     GGDSS Pakata     Ajayi Okasanmi