Bhanjanagar: A youth died after being bitten by a venomous snake in Gola Sahi village under Buguda police limits in Ganjam district today after his family preferred to take him to a temple for treatment instead of rushing to a hospital.
The deceased has been identified Shiv Patro of the same village.
Shiv who was running a cattle farm in the village was guarding it last night and had been asleep on its premises. A venomous snake which had sneaked into the farm bit him in the wee hours leaving him critical.
After family members of Shiv came to know about the snakebite this morning, they took him to a temple located in the village where priests started his nonmedical treatment. They reportedly poured at least 82 pots of water on the head of the victim and held ‘Sankirtan’.
Later realizing that his condition had deteriorated they shifted Shiv to Buguda Hospital. Doctors declared the victim dead under treatment there.
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