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Snakebite Burden in India | Priyanka Kadam | TEDxYouth@NMS

When Ms. Priyanka Kadam realized that she wanted to use her skills to help people, all she needed was the catalyst in the form of a workshop with Romulus Whittaker that told her about the 50,000 annual deaths due to snakebites. With cultural understanding due to her old job and travelling, she connected with the people of rural india. She founded Snakebite Healing and Education Society which spreads awareness around India to combat the tendency to turn to faith healing and avoid treatment upon a snakebite. S.H.E. uses community engagement, digital media and medical expertise to help victims. She told us about how the presence of snakebite treatment or the lack thereof can impact lives. Ms Kadam is the founder of Snakebite Healing and Education Society (She-India.org). Her expertise is networking and bringing together talents to work on the grossly neglected health issues related to snakebites in India. Snakebites are estimated to kill between 46, 000 to 100,000 people annually in India and the morbidity that accompanies a venomous snakebite is 5 times more than human fatalities. She has been actively working with various grass root level groups in Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Karnataka to mitigate snakebite incidences and spread awareness in rural India. She has been driving projects of spreading awareness at the community level with a special focus on Panchayats across India. Ms Kadam has more than 20 years of corporate experience. Ms Kadam is also an advisor to the Core Team of WHO's Global Snakebite Envenoming Group. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx