Vikas Dubey, a 24-year-old man was allegedly bitten by a snake for the 7th time within 40 days in Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The frequent snake bites have put Dubey in a difficult financial situation, leading him to request help from the local authorities.
He said that days claimed the reptile appeared to him in a dream and it will take his life on its ninth attempt. The seventh snake bite happened when he was at his uncle's home on Thursday evening.
"The first incident he said took place on June 2 when Dubey was bitten after getting out of bed at his house. Every Saturday I am getting bitten by a snake. This is the third time I have had this dream in which the snake tells me that will bite me nine times and will take my life on the ninth attempt. The snake also told me that no one will be able to save me. No doctor, tantrik, maharaj or pandit can save my life, it told me and said that the snake will take me along with it after it bites me for the ninth time," ANI quoted Vikas Dubey as saying.
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"Three to four hours before I get bitten I get a premonition about that the snake is going to bite me. I tell my family members about this and they try to protect me" Dubey also said.
Dr Jawahar Lal, who treated Dubey, discovered it all strange and advised him to leave his house and stay elsewhere. "After the fourth snakebite, I was advised to leave my house and stay elsewhere. Then I moved to my aunt's house in Radhanagar, but I was bitten again for the fifth time. The day I got bitten for the seventh time It was a Thursday and I had gone to my uncle's residence," Dubey said.
He also mentioned that the snake won't bite him this Saturday because it already bit him on Thursday.
'Victim Has Sought Financial Help:' CMO
Responding to his financial status, Rajiv Nayan Giri, the Chief Medical Officer said that the victim has sought financial help from the authorities. "The victim came to the Collectorate and cried that he had spent a lot of money to cure the snake bite and now he requested financial help from the authorities. I advised him to visit a government-run hospital where he could get anti-snake venom free of cost," Giri said on Friday, news agency ANI reported.
Giri expressed the peculiarity of the situation, observing that Dubey is bitten by a snake every Saturday. "We still need to figure out if it is actually a snake that's biting him. We also need to see the competence of the doctor who is treating him. A person being bitten by a snake every Saturday and that person being admitted to the same hospital every time, and recovering in just one day seems strange," he said.
The Chief Medical Officer further added that they had formed a three-doctor team to address this matter. "This is why we thought of forming a team to investigate the case, after which I will tell the people the truth of the matter," he added.