Man kills snake after it bites wife, takes it to Udaipur hospital

UDAIPUR: The medical staff at a community health centre in Gogunda near Udaipur were taken aback when a man showed up with a snake wrapped in a piece of cloth on Tuesday. They heaved a sigh of relief only after knowing that it was a dead one.
Ambalal, a resident of Undithal village in Gogunda block of Udaipur district, had taken his wife Devli Bai to the community health centre after she was bitten by a snake while she was sleeping in her room on Tuesday. As he could not identify whether the snake was venomous or not, he killed the snake and carried it to the hospital.
At the emergency ward, when the staff attended to his wife and asked him about the snake, the man expressed ignorance and innocently took out the wrap inside which the snake had been kept. Some of the people screamed out of fear while some jumped from their places, but later were relieved when Ambalal told them that it was dead.
Devli was referred to a Udaipur hospital after first aid. Ambalal told the hospital staff that he had heard somewhere that it was necessary to find out if the reptile was venomous, in cases of snake bite, otherwise the treatment would be delayed leading to dire consequences.