AIR-CLINIC WRITING CONTEST- 'Poison, toxin & Killers!'
It was 10 pm on a Friday Night, Dr. Pepple just saw his last patient for the day, he was happy that he was finally going to spend the weekend with family. This was the second week he had missed their company.
As he was about leaving the hospital, he heard a loud scream from the emergency room, somebody help! My daughter is dying, the nurse on night shift rushed to receive the patient.
What happened she asked as she was taking the vital signs of the patient. I don’t know O , Mama Nkechi replied, when I came to check up on my daughter, I met her lying on the floor, she could hardly respond to her name (who knows she could have been lying there for hours?) All she could mutter was mum… a snake and she was pointed under the bed.
I immediately screamed for help and my husband came to the rescue, he killed a black snake coiled under the bed, here is the snake as she handed over a black polythene bag to the nurse.
Nurse bimbo refused to touch the bag, wait she said, the doctor would soon be around. Shortly afterward, Dr. Pepple appeared and continued further questioning, after examining Nkechi and identifying the snake, he confirmed that the snake was from the Elapidae family. This is definitely a cobra.
Cobras have a neurotoxin which can cause damage to the central Nervous system. source
At this point, Nkechi complained she was feeling drowsy, and that her eyes were blurry with a double vision, Dr. Pepple began first aid management of snake bite. Thank God we have the anti-venom for this particular snake he whispered to mama Nkechi.
'If you made it later to the hospital, we would have lost her; she is definitely going to be on admission'. Let’s hope she gets better he said as he finished siting an intravenous access on Nkechi’s right hand. Nkechi got better over the next couple of days and was discharged, the parent were thankful to God for sparing the life of their only daughter.
