Today we may have reached the moon, but the rural areas are still trapped in the web of superstition. We are saying this because in a government hospital of Supaul district, people trust the tantrik’s tricks more than the treatment of doctors. The matter is of the Triveniganj sub-divisional hospital of the district, where a strange sight was seen on Monday (15 July).
A 6-year-old boy and a 25-year-old woman, victims of snakebite from different places of the police station area, were brought for treatment, but the family members who came to the hospital did not trust the treatment of the doctors, so they decided to cure the victims through exorcism by a tantrik and called three tantriks including two women and one man from the village.
Then the three tantriks continued their exorcism for hours. The tantrik would sometimes mumble and sometimes blow on the snakebite, but the children and women who were terrified by the snakebite appeared speechless. A crowd of people gathered to see the exorcism of the tantriks. The interesting thing is that two women and one male tantrik kept doing tantra-mantra for hours in the hospital and the hospital management remained a mute spectator. These days people are losing their lives after snakebite by getting involved in tantra-mantra.
Mohammad Eklakh, 6-year-old son of Mohammad Tanveer, resident of Maheshua Ward No. 11 of the police station area, was playing on the road in front of his house, when he stepped on a snake, due to which the snake bit him. At the same time, Khushbu Kumari, 25-year-old wife of Roshan Kumar, resident of Baghla Ward No. 9, was going from the door to the courtyard, when the snake bit her on the right leg. The family members of both admitted the injured to the sub-divisional hospital Triveniganj for treatment, but they were not treated there.
At present, both are being treated by the doctor on duty and both are out of danger. On the spot, the female tantrik said that my nephew was bitten by a snake, so we were exorcising him. At the same time, the doctor on duty in the hospital, Dr. Dev Diwakar said that ten to fifteen snakebite patients came throughout the day today. These two snakebite victims came at the last moment, we gave them first aid, who are now out of danger. On the matter of exorcism, the doctor said that we were in our chamber, we cannot tell what is happening outside and we cannot stop it either.