While scratching the sides of the fence of the farm where he worked, Dibas Antonio Aldazol, 32, was bitten by a macaurel snake. He happened in the Guarataro sector of Santa Cruz de Bucaral, Unión municipality of Falcón state.
A native of Real, the Mapararí parish of the Federación municipality, Dibas Antonio was transferred to Coro, to the Doctor Alfredo Van Grieken Hospital, and over time, according to the lawyer Argenis Gómez, he began to bleed from his gums and old wounds.
At the Coro hospital, Dibas received the corresponding attention and the corresponding treatment in cases of snakebite poisoning, including serum or polyvalent antivenom, up to 8 Kits, in addition to other medications, according to hospital reports.
Despite the attention, Dibas Antonio died at 2:00 in the afternoon of this Sunday, September 25, becoming the second death from a snake bite in less than 15 days, being the above a 17-year-old adolescent, of the Federation municipality to which they supplied 9 antivenom kits.
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About what the venom of a snake produces in a person, specialized reports indicate that it acts “on the hemostatic system, producing hemorrhages and thrombosis on the nervous system, causing respiratory paralysis and damage to the muscles and urinary system.”
Regarding these incidents, it was learned that the Health System and social actors have been giving and receiving induction regarding what to do in the face of an ophidian poisoning and how to avoid it, said the Secretary of Health, Dr. Jesús Osteicochea.
The health authority added that, in addition to this preventive campaign, they had polyvalent antivenom or antivenom serum in the municipalities of Federación, Unión, Petit, Bolívar, in addition to Jacura, to avoid complications in patients.