Increasing number of food poisoning cases

SGGP June 11, 2023 09:05

On June 10, the Department of Food Safety (DFS), Ministry of Health issued an official dispatch requesting the Department of Health of provinces and cities, the Food Safety Management Board of Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Bac Ninh to step up propaganda on food safety and food poisoning prevention...

The doctor is examining the patient

Faced with the increasing number of food poisoning cases caused by pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins in poisonous mushrooms, insects, trees, wild fruits, and seafood, on June 10, the Department of Food Safety (ATTP), Ministry of Health issued an official dispatch requesting the Department of Health of provinces and cities, the Food Safety Management Board of Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Bac Ninh to step up propaganda on food safety, prevention of food poisoning, and foodborne diseases to raise responsibility for changing unsafe food behaviors; instructing food production and trading establishments and consumers to absolutely not use livestock and poultry that died of disease or died of unknown causes as food or to process food.

Propaganda so that people do not collect, catch, trade, or use poisonous mushrooms, strange and poisonous insects, puffer fish, sea urchins, strange snails, strange plants, and fruits. Strengthen inspection and supervision of food safety for food production and trading establishments, focusing on establishments producing ready-to-eat food; establishments selling soft drinks, ice, catering services, and collective kitchens. Early detection and strict handling of food safety violations and publicizing violations in the press to promptly warn the community. In particular, units continue to strengthen prevention of poisoning caused by Clostridium botulinum...

* On June 10, Bai Chay Hospital ( Quang Ninh ) announced that it had just admitted two patients with poisoning in Quang Yen town, Quang Ninh province, who were hospitalized in a state of vomiting, difficulty breathing, deep coma, respiratory failure, and a dangerous prognosis due to eating grilled sea urchin.

Upon receiving the patients, the doctors promptly performed emergency detoxification and intensive resuscitation measures according to the protocol, and to date, the two patients have passed the danger zone.

* On the same day, Doctor CK2 Vu Hiep Phat, Head of the Emergency Department of Children's Hospital 2, Ho Chi Minh City, said that he had just received a child who was poisoned after eating mushrooms grown from cicada corpses.

Before that, at around 5:00 p.m. on June 6, T. (living in Dong Nai) brought mushrooms grown from cicada corpses from the back of the field to process into food, then ate them with his mother (T. ate 5, T.'s mother ate 2). About 1 hour later, family members discovered that both mother and child had stomach cramps, dizziness, and vomited old food, so they were taken to the local hospital.

After 2 days of treatment at a lower level hospital, T. was transferred to Children's Hospital 2 in a coma, with severe heart arrhythmia and liver and kidney damage. Through examination and intensive treatment, T.'s health gradually improved.

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