A 53-year-old man passed awayan 18 year old boy is in intensive therapy and five members of a family were hospitalized for an alleged food poisoning after having consumed a stew during noon this Tuesday in the Entre Ríos town of Villa Elisa, located 30 kilometers southwest of Colón.
They all began to feel ill on Tuesday afternoon, after eating the stew for lunch, and sought medical assistance. Four were admitted to the San Roque de Villa Elisa hospitalwhile four others were transferred to Saint Benjamin of Columbus, where a 53-year-old man died due to cardiorespiratory arrest related to poisoning.
He prosecutor Alejandro Perroud decided to open an investigation to determine if the poisoning was caused by spoiled food or by some toxic substance. For its part, the result of the autopsy and the corresponding toxicological studies.
Danilo Parodihead of the Villa Elisa Department, explained: “The family – all its members work in waste collection – apparently consumed a stew prepared in a saucepan where other meals had previously been cooked and apparently, they added a substance that they believed was salt”.
In that context, Marcos Lucianidirector of the San Benjamín de Colón hospital where the victims arrived, explained this Wednesday the hypothesis of the case: ““They accidentally confused table salt with another product.”.
“They are people who work recycled in Villa Elisa and they gather cardboard. We believe that, accidentally, They took a package thinking it was table salt and they confused it when salting the food,” Luciani explained in dialogue with TN and spoke about suspicions that they had ingested “nitro or cure salt, which is used in sausages.” “We don’t know if we are on the right path, but the problem would be the amount they consumed.”
The woman who made the stew, one of the inmates’ cousins, did not suffer symptoms: headache, vomiting and breathing difficulties. They believe she ate another meal, as did other family members who had no problems. Therefore, the investigation is in the stew.
The director of the San Benjamín de Colón hospital, for his part, recalled that on Tuesday seven members of the same family were admitted to that health center in the afternoon: “One of them, 53 years old, 20, 30 minutes after entering died of cardiorespiratory arrest”.
He also said: “There is an 18-year-old boy on a respirator in intensive therapy. While in the guard and the shock room there are five other members of the same family who, after the controls and, since “They remain stable, they go to the Villa Elisa hospital to remain under observation for about 24 hours.”
In addition, he described that at 5 this Wednesday the medication (Methylene Blue) just arrived from the Paraná hospital, which they went to pick up by ambulance: “It helped patients get better.”
Towards the end of last month, another mass poisoning occurred in the province of Santa Fe. In the Coronda Hospital, a man died after having ingested pesticide to commit suicide and 14 health workers who were exposed to the substance were left hospitalized with poisoning symptoms.
A call from the staff of the 13th Police Station of Arocena gave notice that a person in the Palo Azul neighborhood, in the southeastern corner of the city of Santa Fe, was intoxicated. Although she is under investigation, according to medical sources, The substance involved would be an organophosphatea compound commonly used for pest control.
The unit of SIES 107 He approached the neighborhood and there they referred the 31-year-old man to the healthcare center, where he died around 11 p.m., but not without complicating the health of those who tried to save his life. After the interaction with the patient, 14 workers began to present some symptoms of poisoning.
For this reason, a consultation was made to Toxicology Hospital of the City of Buenos Aireswhere they advised immediate assistance and the transfer of everyone to the José María Cullen Hospitalof the City of Santa Fe. Additionally, they evacuated the area.
