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.

COVID     Durbar Festival     Alao Ayotunde     Emir Of Shonga     Sulu Gambari     08001000100     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Shaaba Lafiagi     Alaaya     Sobi Hill     Olateju Lukman     Mansur Alfanla     Kola Adesina     Yahaya Seriki     Kwara Politics     Oba Of Jebba     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Alaro     Ajakaye     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Sunday Fagbemi     Amasa     Firdaos Amasa     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Abraham Ojo     Okiki     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Abikan     Sun Qing Rong     Moro     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Pacify Labs     AIT Ilorin     Adebayo Salami     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Sulyman Tejidini     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Iyaloja-General     Gobirawa     Mohammed Danjuma     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Sa\'adu Gambari     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Galland Marcias     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     John Olajide Adedipe     Suleman Abubakar     Offa Poly     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Kwabes     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Olupako     Isiaka Gold     Zulu Gambari     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     James Kolo     NURTW     Gbemi Saraki     Abioye Bello     Apaokagi     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Salaudeen Oyewale     Oluwole Dupe     Surajudeen Akanbi     Dogara     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Alabi Lawal     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Oni Adebayo     Jaigbade Alao     Modibo Kawu     Garba Ado Sanni     Bisi Oyeleke    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Apaola     FERMA     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Yemi Osinbajo     Kayode Issa     Alapansapa     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Bluenile Associates     TIIDELab     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Olateju Lukman     Baba-Isale     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Bello Bature     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Ilota     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     ANCOPPS     David Oyedepo     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Bilikis Oladimeji     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Bayo Ajia     Isaac Gbenle     Dele Momodu     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Rafiu Ajakaye     Ilesha-Baruba     Demola Banu     Mahee Abdulkadir     Bashiru Makama     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Temi Kolawole     JSSCE     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Boko Haram     Bature Bello     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Awodun     Oloje     Yekeen Alabi     Lotus Bank     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Kolo     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Doyin Group     Kamaldeen Gambari     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Umar Danladi Shero     Student Learning Support Helpline     Ubandoma     Saheed Alakoso     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Tinubu     Emir Of Shonga     Hamidu Olowo     KWTV     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Kwara Metro Park     Government House     Salman Suleiman     MalHub     Aro Yahaya     Sabitiyu Grillo     Bibire Ajape     Afonja Descendants Union     Oluranti Idowu     Muazam Nayaya     Saidu Yaro Musa     NIPOGA     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Oloyede     Transition Implementation Committee