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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.
The Department of health has left the National Health Laboratory Service with a toxic mess of clearing a backlog of more than 35,000 outstanding toxicology reports from the country's three forensic laboratories in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria.