MANDYA: A nervous father took his son to a Public Health Centre for treatment of snake bite, along with the rat snake that had bit him, at Ummanahalli in Mandya district on Sunday.
When farmer Chikkamadaiah’s son Nagaraju was working in a field, the snake (commonly called kere haavu) bit him.
Chikkamadaiah caught the snake immediately and rushed his son to the PHC.
With his son in one hand, he showed the snake to doctors and said, “This is the snake that bit my son. Please treat him.”
Doctors said the snake was not venomous. Nagaraju was given first aid and shifted to KR Hospital in Mysuru.
Chikkamadaiah was not convinced with what the doctors at the Public Health Centre told him and took the snake to KR Hospital to show it to the doctors there.
The doctors at K R Hospital were unable to identify the snake and called snake enthusiast and corporator ‘Snake’ Shyam to help them. Shyam spoke to Chikkamadaiah and told him there was no threat to his son’s life.
Later, Chikkamadaiah told reporters that he brought the snake to the hospital as it would help doctors identify if the reptile was poisonous and give proper medication to his son.