Following a huge gap between the number of snakebite envenoming and deaths reported from direct surveys and in official data, Karnataka has now made snakebite deaths and cases notifiable under the Karnataka Epidemic Diseases Act, 2020. A notification in this regard has been issued recently.
Following this, the State Health Department has directed all hospitals and medical colleges (teaching hospitals) including private facilities to mandatorily enter all snakebite cases and deaths on the Integrated Health Information Portal (IHIP).
