Grandmother, 70, dies of snake bite as hospitals run out of vital anti-venom

The granny was rushed to a private hospital in Mwatate town but there was no anti-venom to treat her.

An elderly woman in Taita-Taveta County bitten by a snake on her way from the latrine died a long agonising death on Wednesday night.

Leah Malagho, 70, joined the sad statistics of victims of the ongoing doctors strike after she was bitten by a poisonous snake locally known as “nguluku” at Mwatunge village along the Mwatate-Taveta road.