EXPLAINER: How to survive a snakebite - Critical dos and don'ts

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  • JESUS IS GOD 2 months ago

    Come to Me, all who are weary” — Matthew 11:28..
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  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 2 months ago

    Ghanaweb, don't misinform the public. In one breadth you said move to safety by sitting or lying and in another breadth you are advising people to keep the affected part lower than the heart. Which is which. n the case of the ...
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  • OGyam 2 months ago

    How do you do these things in the middle of the forest or on the cocoa farm where you are most likely to be bitten by a snake in Ghana?

  • Fd 2 months ago

    Exactly! If many of us start thinking this way, we will put the usual party politics behind and fight for our good

  • Nii 2 months ago

    Since we live in the tropics it should be mandatory for every hospital to have anti venom for snake bites else licence must be revoked period, Ghana and rest of Africa we don't learn, When they are appointed to head the healt ...
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  • cxxxx 2 months ago

    a bogus article does not provide any info

  • THIS IS USELESS ARTICLE 2 months ago

    Ghanaweb is now just interested in getting people to read their useless article with deceptive headlines

  • Aponkye B33 2 months ago

    Aaaba. Wasting time in the event of emergency. Then you better forget this processes and lie down waiting to die.

  • Holy Sinner 2 months ago

    NO ANTI VENOM IN ABUJA HOSPITAL? FUNNY HAHA.
    As I have been always saying, TINIBU like Akufo Addo are the most useless head of States Nigeria and Ghana has ever had. Two CUNTS.TINIBU has turned Nigeria to a failed state hen ...
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  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 2 months ago

    But Nana provided medical drone services that bring antisnake venom to public hospitals.

  • LOVE 2 months ago

    THANKS FOR THE EDUCATION

  • Trotro Ambassador 2 months ago

    Which kind education?
    The article is just a theory.
    We want the farmers to teach us pratically what to do in this case.
    Most of the snakes are in the bush where there is no ambulance or proffesional help.

  • Enock 2 months ago

    Better learn a few herbal remedies for snake bites, many die before getting to any hospital.

  • Enock 2 months ago

    I was bitten by snake once, at my calf, in a farm close to town, I just took of my shirt and tie it below my knee to slow down blood flow upwards, walked home, my dad gave me some fresh cassava leaves to chew and swallow, the ...
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  • Enock 2 months ago

    This is my personal experience, and I know there are several herbal remedies, you can search online and learn a few to add to efforts to reach hospital. The hospital may be far, they may not even have anti venom, so learn som ...
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  • Klaase Klose Marfhen 2 months ago

    Yes herbal treatment is the immediate option for snake bites. The "nearby" health facilities may not even have the anti-snake venom to treat you. Learn some herbal treatments for snake bites today.

  • Kod 2 months ago

    Why they don't have drones to supply medicine or drugs, like the way Dr bawumia did it for Ghanaians

  • Seidu 2 months ago

    The drones were distributing condoms and afrodesias. Didn't you read? Kwasea

  • 7up 2 months ago

    They are all health related. These are things you can get at hospices.

  • Ako 2 months ago

    Ooh Mr Seidu

  • Torchlight 2 months ago

    This is nana akuffoolish addict. Ghanaians have survived his bites already. Eiiiiii nana akuffoolish addict the mother serpent that destroyed ghana's economy

  • Neutralman 2 months ago

    Our politicians are using the poor tax payers money to build mansion all over the place and also seek medical treatment abroad even for their children and wives and there is not even a snake venom for the poor man at the hosp ...
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  • Kwame Peter 2 months ago

    Torchlight,you are no doubt one of the Ghanaians with short memories but not to worry,a slight reminder may not be bad,our President and Atta-Mills in 2009 inherited a debt free economy after HIPIC,after death of Atta-Mills h ...
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  • 7up 2 months ago

    Snakes love music especially the female vocals.

  • Akos 2 months ago

    If antivenom is the problem what are rich Nigerians doing with their money, they should import a lot of them to avoid another death.

  • Raptee 2 months ago

    Drink ur urine .simple

  • The story didn't say anything! 2 months ago

    The story is empty .

  • Nii Akwei 1 month ago

    Explainer, you go explain taya.

  • Rudav 1 month ago

    The article is discouraging all the effective first aid practices while encouraging experimental ones, is it not better to have one limb give than to have the whole body gone?

  • Rudav 1 month ago

    *I mean a limb gone

  • Kwame 1 month ago

    Thanks for the education. We will add the herbal then boom we move regardless

  • Sakaaaa 1 month ago

    Politicians are wicked

  • Simon 1 month ago

    It's high time we go back the herbs