Snakebite deaths expose Tamil Nadu’s rural health gaps | Chennai News
Snakebite deaths expose Tamil Nadu’s rural health gaps Chennai: Snakebite deaths in Tamil Nadu are concentrated in rural areas, where victims were largely farmers or daily-wage workers bitten in fields or after dark. Delayed treatment and unsafe first-aid practices—including tourniquets, herbal remedies and cutting the bite wound—were among reasons that caused death, an analysis by…