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Benue spends 160 million naira treating displaced people bitten by snakes

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Nigeria’s Benue State spent more than 160 million naira on treatment for displaced people bitten by snakes between March and September, according to James Iorpuu, executive secretary of the emergency management agency. Treatment was provided at Benue University Teaching Hospital, while the authorities are also maintaining food distributions despite dwindling resources, Punch reports.

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