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Snakebite Assistant to help docs figure out venom management
Updated On: 23 April, 2023 07:37 AM IST | Mumbai | Ranjeet Jadhav
City-based wildlife conservationist develops app to help reduce snakebite deaths
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More than 50,000 people in India die due to snake bite every year. To reduce this number, a Mumbai-based wildlife conservationist has developed a mobile application called Snakebite Assistant, with the intent of saving lives. The uniqueness about the app is that it is a teaching tool for snakebite management. The first-of-its kind app assists young doctors in learning how to manage a venomous snakebite case based on the principles of emergency medicine.
The Snakebite Assistance mobile application was created by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and Priyanka Kadam, president and founder of the Snakebite Healing and Education Society (SHE-India.org). Kadam was also the member of a group of international specialists from 16 nations that assisted the WHO in creating a global plan for prevention and control of snakebite envenoming. The app was launched on International Snakebite Awareness Day on September 19, 2022. It has been downloaded more than 4,000 times since then.
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