Asia's foremost organized effort, Addressing a Neglected tropical Disease and it's Therapeutic Black Hole, to Alleviate suffering of Farmers & Rural Crisis through awareness campaigns on Deep rooted Myths, Superstitions & false beliefs of Envenomation (Snakebite) treatment, Rural health promoting, first aid & safety outreach, medical training on Envenomation treatment Clinical therapy for medical professionals & health workers, education for medical student, Snakebite Prevention Rescue Service
* In India Every year 80,000 people are reported as victims of snakebite * About 25,000 to 50,000 face agonizing death or permanently maimed * Most of them are deprived Farmers & Agricultural Workers * Death toll raises mainly because of limited or no access to medical facilities in a tropical country which desperately needs * Lack of proper knowledge & info on snakes, snakebite management procedures, rural people often go for Myth based chanting & Quack medicines which is also a major cause
* Snake Bite (SB) Prevention & control through Human-Wildlife Conflict Management efforts * Awareness Campaign on myths & fallacies concerning Snake & SB treatment * Snake safety Training Snake bite First Aid awareness, Primary Treatment Public Health promotional activities * Availability reliable data on SB mortality through Historical survey * Rehabilitation support for Rural SB Victim * Train Forest & Fire Rescue dept officials Snake safely * Treatment training for Medical professional
* More than 2,00,000 Rural Students & Public will be educated with rare & useful information about Snake, SB Emergency & First-Aid Management * SB treatment training for 1000 medical students & professionals * Provide food supplements for 100 Victims * Employment opportunity with Safety Training & Equipments for 15 unemployed Tribal Youth * 30 Fire safety & Forest Officials will be skilled & Equipped to resolve Human-Snake conflicts * 10 Youth victim's will be supported for their treatment
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
