Nigeria: Gombe to Establish Anti-Snake Venom Drug COY

17 September 2007

Kaduna — In a bid to reduce deaths from snakebites an anti-venom drug factory is to be built in Gombe state, the commissioner for health has said.

Alhaji Dahiru Uthman Buba who disclosed this to reporters in Kaduna at the weekend said the drug manufacturing company would be built in Kaltungo. The town is famous for its specialist snakebite clinic.

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