Missing vials take sting out of venom fight.

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  • Source:
    Telegraph (Calcutta, India). 6/21/2013, p1-1. 1p.
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    • Subject Terms:
      SNAKEBITE treatment; HEMBROM, Pitamber; ANTIVENINS; BHUSHAN, Jagat; VIALS; THERAPEUTICS
    • Abstract:
      The article reports that families of several snakebite victims are seeking traditional method of treatment due to lack of anti-venom injections at hospitals in Jharkhand, India. It informs about railway employee Pitamber Hembrom who took his son back to home, when he was told that antivenom injection was out of stock at the MGM Medical College and Hospital in the state. It reveals that civil surgeon Jagat Bhushan Prasad has urged state health department to provide sufficient number of vials.