Snake Bites Grade 2 Student In School, Boy Hospitalized

A grade two student was bitten by a snake inside his school in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Tuesday.

The boy, identified as Mohamed Rehan, was returning home after an examination when he was bitten by the reptile in the premises of the institution. He was rushed to a nearby clinic for first aid and was later transferred to a private medical college hospital in a serious condition where he was administered antivenin. The boy was responding to the treatment but his exact condition was not known.

Meanwhile, the school authorities were instructed by the district education officer to clean the premises thoroughly. The authorities checked the premises of the educational institution but couldn’t locate the reptile. The species of snake that bit the boy was not known.

The incident comes less than a month after a grade five student died of snakebite in the same state. Shehla Sherin was bitten by a viper that was hiding inside the burrow of her classroom. She died four hours after she was bitten by the reptile. Investigation revealed that the victim informed the teacher as soon as she was bitten. However, the teacher refused to believe her. It was only after her classmates begged the school authorities to take the victim to the hospital, the teacher called Sherin’s father who took her to the hospital. The teacher was suspended following a public outrage.