As the hot season approaches with the attendant rise in snake
bites, the Gombe State Government said it has approved N8 million for the
procurement of anti-snake venom for the Snake Bite Treatment Centre, Kaltungo.
Commissioner of Health, Dr Kennedy Ishaya, disclosed this to
newsmen, in Gombe, on Tuesday. Ishaya said the state government would inform
the public as soon as the venom arrives the centre.
The commissioner said the centre provided free treatment,
antibiotics as well as surgical care to patients bitten by snakes, with
patients trooping from other parts of the country as well asfeom Cameroun and
Chad Republic.
He further disclosed that the Federal Government had in July
provided 100 ampules to the centre, stressing however that all the drugs had
been exhausted.
Ishaya added that the new 250-capacity ward for snake bite
treatment, furnished with modern equipment, would be inaugurated in November.
The commissioner appealed to the federal government to supply
additional ampoules.
Dr Abubakar Balla, offiicer in charge of the Centre, told
journalists that the centre had stopped admitting patients because there was no
drug. He commended the state government for approving funds to procure more
drugs.
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