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.

Adedipe     KWSIEC     ASMAU PLAZA     Adeniyi Ojo     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Village Alive Development Association     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Kawu Baraje     Emir Of Ilorin     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     Shoprite     Abraysports FC     Lithium Deposit     Kaosarah Adeyi     Sayomi     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Oba Abdulraheem     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Ishola Abdullahi     John Mayokun Dada     Danladi     Maigida Soludero Transit     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Maja     NAWOJ     Sanitation Exercise     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Boko Haram     Eghe Igbinehin     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     ANCOPPS     Simeon Sayomi     Hassan Oyeleke     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Elerin Of Adanla     Saka Onimago     Tayo Awodiji     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Plat Technologies     Agbarere     Jimba Babatunde     Local Government Pension Board     CACOVID Palliatives     Olatomiwa Williams     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Facemasks     Musa Alhassan Buge     Farouk Salim     John Dara     NIPR     Oyedepo     Kale Ayo     Elekoyangan     Paul Olawoore     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Kwara Liberation Group     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Olaitan Adefila     Olokoba Sulyman     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Razak Atunwa     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Umar Ayinla Saro     Afeyin-Olukuta     IsDB     Rasaq Jimoh     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Sarah Jubril     Kwara University Of Education     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     George Funsho Adebayo     Ramat Oganija     Alabere     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Shuaib Jawondo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Lola Ashiru     Durosinlohun Kawu     Justina Oha     John Obuh     Vasolar Consultoria     Aliyu Adebayo     Oke-Ero     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Flights To Ilorin     Irepodun     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Bolakale Saka     Saliu Ajia     Matthew Okedare     Olokoba     Muhammad Yahya     Bayo Lawal     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Anilelerin     Olomu     Gurei     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Muslim Cementary     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Lola Olabayo     Saka Aleshinloye     Florence Saraki     Kwara State Football Association     Bond     Suleiman Idris     IPSAS     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Kayode Zubair     Olaiya Lawal     COEASU     Aisha Buhari     AbdulGafar Tosho     Sai Kayi     Halimah Perogi     ER-KANG     Olatinwo     Na\'Allah     Abdulfatah Ahmed     20 Billion Bond     Adekunle David Dunmade     Computer Based Test     Ibrahim Jawondo     Photo News     Royal FM     Tunji Ajanaku     Musa Aibinu     Emir Of Ilorin     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Kwara Pdp     Ahmad Belgore     Babaloja-General     Federal Allocation     Shonga     Isau     Awodun     Esinrogunjo     Ilorin Like-Minds     General Hospital, Offa     Quranic Recitation Competition     Abdulraheem Olesin     Rebecca Bake     Stephen Fasakin     Ibrahim Labaika     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Wahab Agbaje     Mutawalle     Shehu Alimi Foundation     George Innih     Sulyman Buhari     Asa