Case of 5 employees hospitalized for eating cake: Fine hotel 8 million

Accordingly, INDOCHINA Investment Joint Stock Company – Hotel Branch in Muong Hoa (Pao’s Sapa Hotel) was administratively sanctioned for improperly performing three-step verification (not keeping records as prescribed by the Ministry of Finance). Medical).

Mr. Nguyen Hai Son, Director of the Food Safety and Hygiene Sub-Department of Lao Cai province, said that because the hotel also has a catering service and is under provincial management, when the incident happened, the provincial interdisciplinary delegation (including the Environmental Police) came to verify the cause; at the same time check the observance of regulations on safe Food Hygiene of the hotel and discovered violations, so a record of handling was made.

Samples of cakes processed by the hotel were also taken for testing.

The interdisciplinary delegation visited patients who had to be treated at the hospital after eating cake.

The number of cakes that the staff ate and then hospitalized were not made by the hotel (according to the reported information); but when the mission came to check, there was no sample left, so it was not possible to analyze the toxic ingredients, so it could only be determined as a suspect. Food poisoning.

Initial verification showed that, around 5:00 p.m. on April 24, during the cleaning process of the hotel room, an employee discovered that 2 packages of cakes were left in one room by a guest, and immediately brought them all back to the delivery room table. shift.

When the work is done, the group of employees (including 5 people) return to the shift room, divide each person to eat 1 cake in the package.

After eating for about 30 minutes, all 5 of these people had symptoms of headache, dizziness, nausea; There was a case of vomiting accompanied by dizziness, lightheadedness and at about 20:00 on the same day, he was taken to the emergency room at Sa Pa Town General Hospital. Currently, after the treatment process, the health of 5 patients has stabilized again.

According to the patient’s accounts, the diameter of the cakes is about 3cm, dark brown in color, sweet like biscuits, wrapped in gray paper bags (on one side is sealed paper with pictures of chestnuts, nuts and seeds on one side. beans, one side is transparent plastic paper), no labels.

The cause of the incident is still under investigation.

According to VOV