Gorakhpur (UP): A 30-year-old woman died of snake bites after she sat on a pair of snakes, which were on her bed, while speaking on phone, police said Thursday.
The incident took place on Saturday when Gita Yadav of Reyaon village in Gagha area was talking to her husband, who works in Thailand, on the cell phone police informed.
A pair of snakes was mating on the bed, which had a printed bedsheet. So Gita Yadav failed to notice them. She sat down unknowingly on them and was bitten by the snakes, family members said. She was rushed to a private hospital where she died during treatment, Gita’s father-in-law, Jai Prakash Yadav, told reporters.
“The patient was brought in my clinic for treatment but due to her condition I referred her to Mau district hospital after first aid,” Dr Santosh Singh stated. “I did not have the vaccines required for her treatment,” he added.
The doctor also said that snake bite patients are on the rise in the district. “In the last one month more than five dozen cases of snake bite have come to me and such patients can be saved if proper treatment is administered to them in time,” the doctor informed.
PTI