Barak General Hospital announced the arrival of a 3-year-old girl in a very critical condition due to a scorpion sting.
The hospital said that the medical staff provided all possible medical services to save the child’s life, stressing that she is now in the best condition and under observation.
The southern cities are witnessing an increase in cases of scorpion stings. In late July, the Tahala Health Center announced the death of the 5-year-old girl, Asmaa Shana, after being stung by a scorpion.
The center explained that the girl died on her way to the Sabha Medical Center, which is about 600 kilometers away, noting that the girl was transferred to the Tahala Health Center and given first aid, and because there was no doctor at the center, she was transferred to Sabha.
The director of the health center, Tahala Ali Agali, explained to Al-Ahrar that the center suffers from a lack of doctors and a shortage of nurses.
On May 26, Al-Shaheed Attia Al-Kassah Hospital in Kufra recorded the first death from a scorpion sting in Kufra, amid warnings about the start of the scorpion season during the hunting season.
Last June, Attia Al-Kaseh Hospital in Kufra announced the death of the 12-year-old child, Abdul Karim Abdul Latif Boubshir, due to a scorpion sting in Kufra.
The hospital confirmed that the death from scorpion stings is the second among children during the summer, after the death of the child (Yassin Wardqo) in late May.
In late May, a 4-year-old child died in Kufra after being stung by a scorpion, hours after arriving at Attia Al-Kaseh Hospital in the city.
In late May, the director of the Martyr Attia Al-Kassah Hospital in Kufra, Ismail Al-Ayda, announced that they receive more than 50 cases of scorpion stings every day, most of them children, and most of them are serious cases, due to their late arrival to the hospital.
Amid the recent increase in scorpion bites, Attia Al-Kassah Hospital announced that it had received 700 injections of scorpion serum, explaining that the serums were available in the hospital’s warehouses and that the government’s Medical Supply and Treatment Services Department, assigned by Parliament, had delivered a shipment of serums in late May.
Last May, Sabha Medical Center revealed that it had received about 6 cases of scorpion stings, confirming that serums for scorpion stings were available in all centers in the region.
Last May, the Ministry of Health of the Government of National Unity reported that medical centers and some hospitals in the southern region had received shipments of anti-scorpion venom serums, specialized medicines, and other general medicines.
On May 8, the Medical Supply Authority began distributing the “scorpion serum” drug to a number of hospitals in the southern region, including Murzuq General Hospital, Sabha Medical Center, and the Pharmacy Office in Ubari, and will continue distributing medicines to all southern cities.
Source: Libya Al-Ahrar Channel
2024-08-13 08:57:40