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.

Abioye Bello     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     KW-GIS     Tunde Yusuf     Olomu     James Ayeni     Democracy Day     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     JMK Construction Company Limited     Prince Bola Ajibola     Michael Nzekwe     Balogin Alanamu     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Sabi     Elections     Femtech     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Odolaye Aremu     Zaratu Umar     Muazam Nayaya     Ita-Nmo Market     Bola Sagaya     Oyedun Juliana Funke     SDP     Alimi     Omupo     Olofa Of Offa     Inside Kwara     Abdulwahab Ololele     Ita-Ore     Nurudeen Muhammed     Matthew Babaoye     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Jimoh Bashir     JAMB     Patigi Regatta     Zainab Abass     Saliu Alamoyo     Rasaq Jimoh     Offa Poly     Adebayo Salami     Amina El-Imam     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Christopher Odetunde     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Memunat Monsuma     Teachers Specific Allowance     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Village Alive Development Association     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Royal FM     Yusuf Ali     Afeyin-Olukuta     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Sulyman Buhari     Leke Ogungbe     Musa Yeketi     Ijagbo Health Centre     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Femi Ogunsola     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Alaaya     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Oke-Ero     Madawaki     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Doyin Agbamu     SSUCOEN     Kwara TV     BECE     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Apata Ajele Secondary School     T And K FOODS     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Elections     Nupe     Barakat Community Secondary School     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Neo Mundo Ltd     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Offa Metropolitan Club     Olatunji Ibrahim     Egbejila     Durbar     Iyiola Oyedepo     Valsolar     Segun Adeniyi     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Simeon Ajibola     Ibrahim Akaje     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Kwara Pdp     Emmanuel Bello     Olomu     Rihanat Ajia     Olam Food Ingredients     KWASIEC     Smart School     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Shola Odetundun     Taofeek Sanusi     Ayobami Seriki     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     LEAH Charity Foundation     Chief Of Staff     Abdullateef Abdussalam     Salami Adekunle     Saliu Tunde Bello     AIT Ilorin     SSUCOEN     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     TIIDELab     Musa Abdullahi     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Minimum Wage     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Shehu Adaramaja     George Innih     Atiku Abubakar     Suleiman Abubakar     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Oke-Ode     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Moronfoye     Valsolar Consortium     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     TESCOM 2025     Suleiman Idris     Ilorin South     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Bamidele Adegoke     Idris Garba     Quareeb Islamic Association     Amuda Aluko     Bola Shagaya     ENetSuD     Idris Amosa Saidu     Durbar Festival     Ridwan Agboola     Adebara     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Olufolake Abdulrazaq