Benue: SEMA warns of rising snakebite cases among farmers and displaced people

Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) warns that snakebite incidents are increasing, particularly among farmers, internally displaced people and other vulnerable communities. Two residents of Daudu 1 IDP camp, 35-year-old Isaac Shula and 19-year-old Mbapuun Tyoshio, were bitten while working on their farms and referred to Benue State University Teaching Hospital in Makurdi. Health focal person Amos Dzungwe said two patients had recovered and been discharged in the past two weeks, while others remained under treatment. He urged anyone bitten to seek prompt care at a recognised health facility and called on the public to disregard false, politically driven accounts of the incidents.