Two brothers die of snakebite

Local doctors told the media their lives could have been saved if they were given anti-venom within two hours

HYDERABAD:

The snake bite claimed the lives of two brothers in a village of Islamkot town of Tharparkar district on Sunday.

The deceased, Bhaledino Sangrasi, 63, and Karimdino Sangrasi, 60, died when they were being shifted to the hospital in Islamkot.

The local doctors told the media that their lives could have been saved if they were given anti-venom within two hours after they were bitten.

The extreme hot weather forces snakes to come out of their sandy hideouts in Thar Desert each year causing a spike in snakebite cases. Most of the deaths were caused due to delay in getting the patient to the hospital however, even if the patient does makes it to the hospital, there is a perennial lack of anti-venom injections.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 4^th, 2022.