Jose Maria Morelos, Q. Roo.- The rainy season is also the season with the highest presence of poisonous reptiles in inhabited or cultivated areas. The problem in health sector clinics is often not the shortage of anti-viper serum, but the preservation of the drug.
During the rainy season, the presence of snakes increases in agricultural areas, which is why it is vitally important that rural health clinics have anti-viper serum.
In Candelaria, a town where residents of several neighboring towns converge, the health center generally has the serum in question, the problem lies in the frequent and prolonged failures in the electricity supply, said the delegate of that place, Esteban Serralta.
As far as I know, we have that medicine for snake bites, but what happens is that, like the current, it is constantly running out, so sometimes it is difficult for us to preserve that type of medicine, because it needs refrigeration.
He noted that, fortunately, in the areas of mass cultivation the presence of reptiles has decreased, perhaps due to the frequent incursion of agricultural machinery or the inputs they apply, but, in the espeque areas, the presence of vipers, particularly the rattlesnake, is quite common.
Juan Ojeda
