Muscat, July 27

The Health Affairs unit of the Muscat Municipality held a training programme for 20 employees in rescuing snakes and handling emergency situations arising out of snake sightings at unlikely places.

This is within the framework of qualifying human cadres in all sectors of municipal work, and in order to achieve health and environmental sustainability.

With the advent of summer and the increase of temperatures, snakes emerge from their quarries and resort to homes and farms, and spread in public places where they resort to escape from hot temperatures and in search of food, water and damp atmosphere.

The participants were acquainted with the types of snakes commonly found in the Sultanate of Oman, their locations, behaviour and the ways to handle poisonous and non-venomous ones.

Trainees were also given lessons on ecological balance and the ways of handling snakes without disturbing the environmental balance.