An associate professor in risk management and founder of Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN), along with other ADN experts have set up a hub in in Burujhari village in Odisha to look into lifesaving solutions, according to a press note from the university.
Key points
- ADN is a global membership network working on avoiding human deaths from natural hazards.
- According to the WHO, around 81,410 to 137,880 people around the world die each year because of snakebites. In India, more than 50,000 people die from snakebites each year.
- WHO formally listed snakebite envenoming as a highest-priority neglected tropical disease in June 2017.
- In 2015, India ratified the WHO’s Snakebite Envenoming Strategy for Prevention and Control through the National Action Plan.
- India has also ratified the United Nations’ Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction for halving the number of deaths by 2030.
