He said out of the figure, about 2000 people are killed and between 1,700 and 2,000 people have one leg or arm amputated to save their lives following a snakebite.
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The assembly made the request against the background of the death of 91 victims in the states.
Reacting to the report of the death of 250 people as a result of snake bite in Gombe and Plateau States within three weeks, the Minister said the Ministry still has some vials of anti-snake venom stocked in the Federal Ministry of Health from the 2016 procurement from which States and other treatment centres were issued upon request.