Six builders poisoned with leaves
Read KanPicking the wrong leaves to saute fresh bamboo shoots for dinner, six bricklayers were poisoned, one died, one was on a ventilator.
The Cho Don District Health Center said it received a group of poisoned workers on the night of March 18. At dinner, they eat bamboo shoots with finger leaves and drink about two liters of wine. By 9 p.m., all of them had headaches, stomach pains, shortness of breath and vomiting.
Six people were taken to hospital. At the Cho Don district Medical Center, Ban Van Sen (33 years old, living in Ham Yen district, Tuyen Quang province) died of severe poisoning.
Four others including Nguyen Van Ngon (Ham Yen, Tuyen Quang), Duong Van Tuan, Mac Thien Huu and Phung Duc Quan (living in Bach Thong, Bac Kan) were poisoned, received an antidote, given oxygen, and transferred to the Bac Kan House. General Sick for emergency at night.
Other people eat and drink less alcohol, so it doesn’t affect their health. By the afternoon of March 19, three out of four people were out of harm’s way, and one was still on a ventilator.
Mr. Hoang Xuan Truong, Chairman of the Nghia Ta Commune, said that the group of builders, who are self-employed, only came to the site for a day to work as a broadcasting tower in Na Ca village, Nghia Ta commune. Maybe they confuse the leaves with other leaves, so they pick and fry the shoots.
The tree is vines, the leaves are oval, shiny, 7-12 cm long, 2.5-5.5 cm wide. Flowers grow in groups at the ends of branches or in leaf interstitials, yellow petals. The leaves are highly poisonous and often grow naturally in the northern mountainous provinces. Leaf poisoning is fast, severe and easily killed.
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