About 300 people were injured intoxicated after eating spoiled food last Saturday during an event where they were Parents, teachers and children at the Gimnasio de la Sabana School, located in Madrid, Cundinamarca.
According to official reports, everything points to the fact that the foods that The poisoning was caused by spoiled sandwiches, which were eaten by about 500 people.of which 300 showed symptoms of poisoning.
The affected were treated urgently at the same school, but the severity of the symptoms of many of them meant that they had to be transferred to the St. Matilde Hospital, medical center that is overwhelmed due to the number of patients who have arrived in critical condition.
Faced with the large number of intoxicated users, doctors were prioritizing care for intoxicated children. The police are continuing to investigate whether the poisoning It is due to poor refrigeration or poor handling of said sandwiches.
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Children and parents taken to hospital
Poisoning in Cundinamarca
A preliminary report stated that 65 people consulted health services, of which 45 consulted the ESE Hospital Santa Matilde in the municipality of Madrid (21 minors and 24 adults) and 19 at the ESE Hospital María Auxiliadora in the municipality of Mosquera (seven minors and 12 adults), with symptoms compatible with poisoning (abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea), who are stable, with outpatient management without requiring hospitalization.
“We were at a meeting at my nephew’s school, the Gimnasio de La Sabana school. What happened was that in the middle of the snacks they handed out some sandwiches that were in a terrible state of decomposition,” said Estiven Cruz, one of the witnesses of the incident, with Caracol News.
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