Benue: SEMA raises alarm over rising snakebite cases among farmers, IDPs

The Benue State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, has raised concerns implicit the expanding fig of snakebite incidents successful the state, peculiarly among farmers, Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, and different susceptible communities.

The agency’s interest comes aft 2 caller snakebite cases involving a 35-year-old man, Isaac Shula, and a 19-year-old girl, Mbapuun Tyoshio, some from Daudu 1 IDP campy successful Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.

The victims were said to person suffered the attacks portion moving connected their farms and were subsequently referred to the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, BSUTH, Makurdi, for aesculapian attraction nether the supervision of Benue SEMA.

Speaking connected the development, the agency’s Health Focal Person, Dr Amos Dzungwe, disclosed that snakebite incidents were becoming progressively communal crossed the state.

Dzungwe explained that SEMA had received respective appeals for aesculapian assistance from antithetic locations successful the state, indicating the increasing standard of the problem.

He revealed that 2 patients wh...