Since treatment for snakebite is not possible in the entire district. Patients have to be taken to Dadeldhura or Dhangadhi. Most of the patients die on the way to hospitals.
Fourteen-year-old Manisha Saud, a resident of Kusmaut settlement in Shivanath Rural Municipality-1. She died of snakebite last. Snake bit her around 9 am. “She died an hour and a half later,” said Bir Bahadur Saud, the victim’s uncle.
Manisha died in lack of timely treatment.
The locals of Talloswarad that comprises Shivanath and Pancheshwar rural municipalities. Generally go to Indian towns across the border for treatment. But they cannot go to India in the rainy season. As they have to risk our lives on wooden boats and tyre tubes to cross the Mahakali River. There aren’t any bridges across the Mahakali River.
Many people in the villages of Talloswarad die of snakebite every year due to a lack of timely treatment. According to the local residents, around 7-8 people die of snakebite in Shivanath and Pancheshwar rural municipalities every summer. However, neither the local units nor the health institutions have any data on snakebite deaths here.
A total of 90 snake species have recorded in Nepal out of which 17 considered highly venomous and dangerous.
