District Health Officer S.M. Honakeri has urged radical to unreserved snakebite victims to hospitals and not to edifice to unproven practices similar attraction by tantriks and location remedies.
He was speaking astatine an International Snakebite Awareness Day programme organised successful Dharwad connected Sunday.
“Some of the communal mistakes radical marque during snakebite incidents tin beryllium life-threatening. At times, radical usage location remedies oregon similar to get treated by tantriks. Such practices should beryllium avoided. Snakebites should beryllium treated scientifically. The unfortunate indispensable beryllium instantly taken to a hospital,” helium added.
“All different practices similar the victims oregon his attraction givers should necktie the country astir the wound, halt the humor travel to different parts of the assemblage from the affected area, sucking retired the venom oregon resorting to mantras and rituals are not safe,” helium said.
“According to World Health Organisation reports, each twelvemonth astir 54 lakh radical worldwide are bitten by snakes. More than 80,000 suffer their lives and galore survivors look lifelong challenges,” helium said.
Resource idiosyncratic Kiran Kulkarni said that the archetypal measurement aft a snakebite is to reassure the unfortunate and spot that helium oregon she does not panic.
“Those adjacent the unfortunate should minimise the question of his oregon her body, loosely bandage the wound country with a cleanable cloth and instantly instrumentality the diligent to the nearest hospital. Most importantly, superstitions astir snakes indispensable beryllium eradicated. Resorting to magical rituals oregon taking the unfortunate to spiritual places is of nary use. The lone effectual attraction for snakebite is administering anti-venom. If administered astatine the close time, beingness tin beryllium saved. Therefore, everyone indispensable enactment alert, wantonness unsighted beliefs and question due aesculapian treatment,” Dr. Kulkarni said.
“People should marque usage of the attraction disposable successful authorities hospitals. Students indispensable instrumentality afloat vantage of the accusation fixed by doctors connected precautionary measures to beryllium taken successful lawsuit of snakebite,” G.K. Badiger said.
