Biryani blows: Wedding guests rushed to hospital after dinner
Police have sent samples of the food for testing.
Those affected by the food included more than 60 women and 16 children, however, all of them are out of danger. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
More than a hundred people were rushed to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre after they ate poisonous biryani at a wedding in Korangi on Saturday.
According to those taken to the hospital, they felt something was wrong after they had the biryani and qorma but their condition started to deteriorate when they went to bed.
The doctors said that they received their first couple of patients at 6am and people kept coming in with the same complaint for the next three hours.
They added that the stomachs of the affected people had to be cleaned.
"They were complaining of diarrhoea and vomiting," said the hospital's deputy executive director, Dr Seemin Jamali, while talking to The Express Tribune. "The patients were admitted in different wards of the hospital but were discharged after being given first-aid treatment."
Those affected by the food included more than 60 women and 16 children, however, all of them are out of danger.
The police have started an investigation. SHO Abbas Kolachi said that samples of the food and water have been obtained and will be sent to a laboratory for testing.
"So far we have not arrested anyone as the investigation is still at a preliminary level," he said. "The initial investigation suggests that there was something wrong with the water while the food was not poisonous." He added that they were still waiting for a report to confirm this and recording statements of the patients. No case was registered till the filing of this report.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 18th, 2014.
More than a hundred people were rushed to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre after they ate poisonous biryani at a wedding in Korangi on Saturday.
According to those taken to the hospital, they felt something was wrong after they had the biryani and qorma but their condition started to deteriorate when they went to bed.
The doctors said that they received their first couple of patients at 6am and people kept coming in with the same complaint for the next three hours.
They added that the stomachs of the affected people had to be cleaned.
"They were complaining of diarrhoea and vomiting," said the hospital's deputy executive director, Dr Seemin Jamali, while talking to The Express Tribune. "The patients were admitted in different wards of the hospital but were discharged after being given first-aid treatment."
Those affected by the food included more than 60 women and 16 children, however, all of them are out of danger.
The police have started an investigation. SHO Abbas Kolachi said that samples of the food and water have been obtained and will be sent to a laboratory for testing.
"So far we have not arrested anyone as the investigation is still at a preliminary level," he said. "The initial investigation suggests that there was something wrong with the water while the food was not poisonous." He added that they were still waiting for a report to confirm this and recording statements of the patients. No case was registered till the filing of this report.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 18th, 2014.