Snakebite kills 58000 persons per year in India: Study
Authors of the nationally representative mortality study calls for making snakebite a notifiable disease in India to check gross under-reporting of deaths.
Authors of the nationally representative mortality study calls for making snakebite a notifiable disease in India to check gross under-reporting of deaths.
Deceased girl's father, Rajesh, too told the media that he was threatened by the school authority.
In his letter, Gandhi said that the school's crumbling infrastructure needed urgent attention from the state government.
Out of them, 80 per cent death cases reported were due to Russels Viper (chandrabora) bites, which took place in the past two years.
Twenty-eight year-old Namita Kshetrapal, another housewife from Debipur in Memari Police Station area also was bitten by a venomous snake on her right leg at around 11.00 p.m.
Out of estimated one-lakh deaths due to snakebite across the globe annually, nearly half occur in India. Still, the snakebite…