National Snakebite Awareness Summit
September 23 , 2021
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- It was recently organised in virtual mode.
- It was organised by the Integrated Health and Wellbeing Council, New Delhi.
- The summit was held on the eve of the International Snakebite Awareness Day, observed on 19 September every year.
Snakebite cases in India
- In the 20-year period from 2000 to 2019, the country recorded 1.2 million snakebite deaths with an average of 58,000 deaths every year.
- As much as 97 per cent of these deaths happened in villages and more than half of the dead were men in their most productive years.
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