Nigeria: Snakebite victims pay N500,000 for anti-venom treatment in Gombe — Africa Links 24

… Patients cry out as Kaltungo hospital records 726 cases, 24 deaths in 6 months —

Snakebite patients in Gombe State have decried the soaring cost of life-saving treatment and called for urgent government intervention.

Some of the patients who spoke to newsmen in Kaltungo Local Government on Thursday, appealed to both the state and Federal Government to act swiftly.

Ali Idris, a resident of Bojude Village said he was bitten by a snake and spent eight days in…