Snake bite victim reporting still a bottleneck in Telangana

Reporting and active surveillance of snake bites remains a major bottleneck in the public health care system of Telangana State, due to inordinate delay in making it a notifiable disease.

Neither the State-run Government hospitals nor private hospitals in Hyderabad and



districts have a fool proof system of data gathering, sharing and reporting, which could make snakebite incidents easy to track and treat.

It has been nearly six months since the Union Health Ministry urged the State governments and UTs to make snake bites a notifiable disease.