Mysore: Rat snakes rattle K R Hospital

DHNS

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Mysore, 04 June 2011: Reptiles found at store room attached to OT, wash area; another inside a ‘two-wheeler’.

 

Snakes created flutter for a while at different places in the city on Friday, heralding the onset of monsoon.

 

Sannappa, a ‘D’ group staffer at the operation theatre in the first floor of  the stone building at K R Hospital, noticed a snake slithering inside the store room through the window. It was around 3 pm.

 

He soon informed HoD, Anesthesiology, Dr C L Gurudatt. Subsequently, the doctor informed ‘Snake’ Shyam. 

 

Till Shyam arrived, the reptile was in the store room, making it easy for him to net, in no time. Fortunately, the OT was not functioning at that time.

 

At the same time, Shyam learnt that, another snake had found shelter in the gap of the roof of the store room at ‘dhobhi ghat’ a place where dresses get a good wash at Cheluvamba Hospital in the same premises. It was first spotted by Raju, in-charge of the place.

 

According to him, it is for the second time in a week, a snake was caught from the same place.

 

Shyam told media, the snakes caught, belong to ‘kere haavu’ species, and are abundantly found in the hospital, for the area having rats in good numbers.

 

All the snakes, he has caught in the hospital till now, belong to afore said species alone. With these, the total number of snakes he has rescued is recorded at 24,113.

 

Earlier in the day, Erappa, an elderly man at Vijayanagar was shocked to see a snake in front of his house. He tried to scare away the ‘uninvited guest’, but only to  bear the brunt. The snake slithered inside the compound of his house and found solace in the two-wheeler parked at the place. Petrified, Erappa pushed the vehicle to a garage nearby, with all hopes of finding help.

 

 But the mechanics didn’t dare to help the former. Erappa had no option left than,parking the vehicle at a secluded place, praying snake god to free him from the situation he was in. 

 

However, he found help in another mechanic. He removed the headlight of the vehicle only to find the reptile inside. He with the help of a stick coaxed the reptile, that slowly made its way into a bush nearby, thus freeing Erappa from tension.