The National Health Laboratory Service has distributed snake antivenom to 124 facilities countrywide but said on Wednesday that demand was still outstripping supply.
The minister of health, Dr Joe Phaahla, has said that SA’s snake antivenom shortage is being monitored, but snake experts battled to find any on Thursday after a man was bitten by a Cape cobra in Noordhoek in the Western Cape.
Amid a frantic scramble for snake antivenom in South Africa, snake bite victims are receiving half the prescribed dose - that’s if they’re lucky to be treated at all. Desperate veterinarians, meanwhile, are using expired doses to save pets bitten by snakes
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