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.

Razaq Atunwa     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Ballah     Gbugbu     IF-K     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Timothy Akangbe     Bola Tinubu     Ajidagba     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Owo Isowo     Sherif Shagaya     Adama Isa     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Olatunde Jare     Sobi     Ajase-Ipo     Balogun-Ojomu     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     New Nigeria People’s Party     Akorede     Allocation     Baba-Isale     NAWOJ     Bilikisu Gambari     Olushola Saraki     CCEPE     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Royal FM     Abdulrauf Aliyu     TIC     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Lafiagi     Mukhtar Shagaya     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Olomu     Alabe     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Adesina Simon Sodiya     LAK Jimoh     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Albert Ogunsola     Muritala Olarewaju     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Oke-Oyi     Oyun     Sulaiman Gado     Sulu Gambari     Ijakadi     Oloriegbe     Moshood Bakare     Unilorin     Yusuf Arowosaye     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Alfa Yahaya Road     Dorcas Afeniforo     Olaitan Buraimoh     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Share     Gamji Members Association     KWASEIC     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Yakub Lai Gobir     Saad Omo\'ya     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Apado     T And K FOODS     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Ibrahim Abiodun     N-Power     Abegunde Goke     Law School Scholarship     Ayo Opadokun     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Mutawali Of Ilorin    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Olaitan Buraimoh     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Ambassador Kayode Laro     TESCOM 2025     Principal Private Secretary     PharmAccess Foundation     Emir Of Shonga     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Kazeem Adekanye     COVID-19 Palliatives     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Saka Keji     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Tayo Awodiji     Umar Danladi Shero     Olayinka Olaogun     Moshood Mustapha     Sarakite     Zulu Gambari     SSA Youth Engagement     Ayoade Akinnibosun     Transition Implementation Committee     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Durosinlohun Kawu     Oyelere Oyinloye     Ayo Salami     Ethical College     Erin-ile     Kwara State Fire Service     Nupe     John Dara     Olomu     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Al-Ilory     Iyabo Adewuyi     Ibrahim Jawondo     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Emir Of Yashikira     Moji Makanjuola     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Al-Adaby     Code Of Conduct     School Of Nursing     Isiaka Alikinla     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Aso Ofi     Kwara Central     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Onilorin     Asa LGEA School     Moses Salami     Kolade Solagberu     Balikis Jawondo     Tunde Yusuf     Talaka Parapo     Sa\'adu Gambari     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Osinbajo     Adama Isa     Babs Iwarere     Rafiu Ibrahim     Third Estate     Aliyu Alhassan     Shuaib Olarongbe     Oba Abdulrahim     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Mamman Saba Jibril     Kwara University Of Education     Raji AbdulRasaq     Iliasu     IQRA College     SAPZ Project     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Ashiru