Cuban authorities investigate the origin of Nitro’s salt that caused the death of a mother and daughter

Madrid/A 25 -year -old girl, Doraima García Moroña, and her 5 daughter, Nashlyn Salet Hernández García, died this Saturday in Guanabacoa (Havana), after ingesting Nitro salt thinking that it was common salt. Three other members of the same family, including a one -year infant, are hospitalized for the same cause.

Unlike other events, this time it was the authorities that made it public immediately. In a statement issued by the General Health Directorate of the Capitalit was reported that in the afternoon “they arrived at the Polyclinic Andrés Ortiz, of the municipality of Guanabacoa, three patients, members of the same family, with symptoms of poisoning.”

As detailed to Channel Caribe the provincial director of Health of Havana, Manuel Rivero Abelloabout Doraima García and her daughter, “they could not work with them because they arrived deceased.” The third family member who arrived at the body of guard, an uncle who lived with them, was the one who said they had consumed “a type of salt” that the authorities presumed that it was Nitro. “The characteristics of the clinical picture,” Rivero Abello explained, is only seen with a type of salt: “A vomit occurred and the death of the girl and her mother immediately occurred.”

“They remain under observation due to the dangerous of the picture of this type of salt”

The official also said that they hospitalized in the pediatric of Centro Habana a one -year infant “that was breastfeeding.” He is, he continued, “in intensive therapy, under surveillance, but out of danger.” Two other relatives, the mother of Doraima García and her uncle, were transferred to the Miguel Enriquez hospital, known as the beneficial one, and “are well healthy.”

However, “they remain under observation due to the danger of the picture of this type of salt,” said Rivero Abello, who said they have activated “to all guard bodies” in case similar cases appear.

The uncle of the deceased said that he acquired the product on Compostela Street, of Havana Vieja, “in the understanding that it was common salt, which is investigated,” says the statement of the health authorities. The envelope that this family member brought to the body of guard is in the hands of the Police, also referred to the Health head of the capital.

Nitro salt – potassium or conservative nitrate E252 – is a compound that is used to prevent bacteria and microbes in food, especially in sausages, but that should be used in very small quantities so as not to be harmful to health. Although its flavor is more acre than common salt, its appearance is practically the same.

In 2021, the authorities denied the rumor that a load of nitro salt had “diverted” And it was being sold as common salt, which had allegedly caused death to different patients in Matanzas, Artemisa and Mayabeque. The theft, according to different publications on social networks, had occurred in stores of the Ministry of Internal Commerce in Artemis.

Faced with this, a note published in Cubadebate He said: “The provincial director of Commerce in that territory, Alexis Hidalgo-Gato Jiménez, commented on Granma that ‘in no warehouse or entity of the trade system of our province has occurred the subtraction of the product’.

In addition, they emphasized that the authorities took “all security measures to avoid deviations from the control of internal inventories.”

What they did recognize is that on November 1 of that year, and in Artemis, the Los Naranjos genetic company, belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture, “five kilograms of cure salt, a product containing nitro salt to the 12%, which is not lethal and only if consumed in large quantities cause diarrhea ”.