KZN Midlands woman bitten by snake in stable condition
An elderly woman's in a serious but stable condition in hospital after she was bitten by a snake in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
Paramedics were called to the scene - in the Dargle Valley area - at around midday yesterday.
"When medics arrived on scene - they found a resident had been bitten by a snake. It's still unknown what snake it was. Advance life support intervention was performed on her before being transported to Lie Hilton Hospital for further care," Midlands EMS spokesperson Derrick Banks said.
Banks says she is in a stable condition now in ICU.
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He adds the doctors will be running further tests to try and establish what kind of snake it was and provide the woman - who's believed to be in her late seventies - with the most appropriate treatment.
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