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Ortom pays medical bills of 700 snake bite victims

Ihesiulo Grace 6 October 2019 0

The Oracle Business Foundation Limited, a company to Benue state Governor, Samuel Ortom has paid the medical bills of over 700 victims of snake bite at the Bishop Murray Hospital, Makurdi. Health Coordinator in the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, Rev. Father Peter Paleghve made the disclosure at

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Centre records 24 deaths in 1,829 cases of snake bites

Ihesiulo Grace 11 September 2018 0

The Snake Bite Treatment and Research Centre in Kaltungo, Gombe State, says it has recorded 24 deaths out of the 1,829 cases of snake bites recorded between January and August. The officer in charge of the centre, Dr Abubakar Ballah, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Kaltungo on Monday. He said the […]

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Anti-Snake bite venom not out of stock in Nigeria -Health Minister

Ihesiulo Grace 7 November 2017 0

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has debunked media reports making the round that the Federal Government has ran out of stock of the anti-snake venom for the treatment of snake bite victims. Prof Adewale who was reacting to the report of the death of 91 people as a result of snake bite in […]

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250 die of snakebite in 3 weeks as acute scarcity of anti-venom persists

Ihesiulo Grace 5 November 2017 0

Two hundred and fifty victims of snake bite have died in the last three weeks in Plateau and Gombe States, following an acute scarcity of snake anti-venom drugs in the country. The figure represents the number of confirmed deaths from three snake treatment centres – General Hospital, Kaltungo, Ali Mega Pharmacy, Gombe and Comprehensive Medical […]