Senator Raffy Tulfo on Monday lamented the lack of supply of cobra antivenom in rural areas, noting that only the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) produces and distributes the antidote for snakebites in the Philippines.
Senator Raffy Tulfo on Monday lamented the lack of supply of cobra antivenom in rural areas, noting that only the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine produces and distributes the antidote for snakebites in the Philippines.In a privilege speech, Tulfo narrated that he was informed during his recent visit to Isabela of an incident wherein a farmer was bitten by a Philippine Cobra and died because there was no antivenom available in the hospital where the patient was rushed.
The senator stressed that this is an urgent matter as a study by the National Center for Bio-technology Information on the Health and Economic Impact of Snakebites in ASEAN countries published in 2022 showed that there are about 13,377 snakebite victims per year in the Philippines, with 550 resulting in death, while others are amputated.
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