Many workers hospitalized after October 20th party

The Bac Giang Department of Health has just issued a quick report on dozens of workers of Shinsung Vina Company Limited (Song Khe - Noi Hoang Industrial Park) with symptoms of abdominal pain, vomiting, frequent diarrhea, dizziness, and fever, and were taken to the hospital for emergency care and treatment.

Ms. Hoang Thi Thu, a worker at the Company, is being treated at the Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology Department, Bac Giang General Hospital. She said that at noon on October 20, she had a party at the Company. That evening, she had dinner at home. At 4:00 a.m. on October 21, she had severe stomach pain and had to go to the bathroom many times. Her family bought her anti-diarrhea medicine but it did not help, so they took her to the emergency room. No one in her family had the same symptoms as her.

According to a representative of the Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Bac Giang General Hospital, up to now, the department is treating 25 patients of Shinsung Vina Company Limited. The victims were all hospitalized with abdominal pain, vomiting, frequent diarrhea, dizziness, and some had fever. Currently, the victims' lives are not in danger.

Immediately after the incident, the authorities of Bac Giang province conducted an investigation, collected information about the food facility that provided lunch on October 20 for Shinsung Vina Company Limited and assessed the conditions for ensuring food safety. The Center for Disease Control of Bac Giang province has deployed to collect samples for testing to find the cause of the incident.

Previously, at noon on October 20, Shinsung Vina Company Limited organized a party for workers at Noi Hoang football field (Noi Hoang commune, Bac Giang city), with 1,160 participants. The meal had many dishes such as seafood, steamed king prawns with coconut water, rare veal with lemon, fried squid with butter, honey-grilled chicken, grilled catfish with galangal and rice paper rolls.

Source: https://kinhtedothi.vn/bac-giang-hang-loat-cong-nhan-nhap-vien-sau-tiec-lien-hoan-20-10.html