By Hou Akot Hou<\/p>\n
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A 3-year-old boy has passed away after being bitten by a snake in Riang-bar village, Aweil West County, in Northern Bahr El Ghazal state.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The deceased, identified as Garang Deng, was sleeping with his siblings when they heard a commotion among the chickens. Upon rushing to the chicken cage, Garang was bitten by a snake around 10:00 PM.<\/p>\n Lual Khamis, the deputy hospital director for Nyamlel, provided details on the incident.<\/p>\n “The boy was bitten on Sunday at night as he stormed out to go and rescue their chicken, which were being attacked by a snake. He was bitten on the neck,” he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were lying on a bed and the snake sneaked to eat chicken and they tried to rescue them in the process the boy was bitten and rushed to the hospital but passed on around 3:00 AM,\u201d Khamis added.<\/p>\n This marks the third reported case of a child dying from a snake bite in the region. Last month, another child had died of a snake bite in Aweil North County.<\/p>\n Khamis urged the public to be vigilant during the rainy season, as snakes are more active during this time.<\/p>\n He also stated that the hospital has been coordinating with health partners to acquire anti-venom, but their efforts have not been successful in securing enough of the life-saving medication.<\/p>\n The authorities are advising residents to always light paths when moving at night and clear their surroundings to deter snakes from encroaching on living spaces.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Hou Akot Hou A 3-year-old boy has passed away after being bitten by a snake in Riang-bar village, Aweil West County, in Northern Bahr El Ghazal state. The deceased, identified as Garang Deng, was sleeping with his siblings when they heard a commotion among the chickens. Upon rushing[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Courtesy-photo-i.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26694,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26692\/revisions\/26694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}