On May 6, Ho Chi Minh City Children's Hospital 2 announced that it had found Salmonella bacteria in the sample of patient PHM, 14 years old. This is a boy suspected of bread poisoning in Dong Nai . Ho Chi Minh City Children's Hospital 2 will continue to accurately identify the bacteria.
PHM patient was hospitalized with symptoms of fever, diarrhea, diagnosed with bacterial intestinal infection. Doctors treated with antibiotics and supportive drugs, the child stabilized after 2 days.
At the same time, Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City is also actively treating two cases of poisoning.
Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Van Quang, Head of the Department of Intensive Care and Anti-Poisoning, Children's Hospital 1, said that the most serious patient was TGH, 6 years old, who was transferred from Dong Nai Children's Hospital. The child suffered multiple organ damage and is currently on a ventilator, blood filtration, and vasopressor. Doctors are doing their best to save the patients.
As of the afternoon of May 5, more than 500 people were hospitalized after eating bread from a store in Long Khanh City, Dong Nai. The Director of Dong Nai Department of Health said that E.coli bacteria was detected in the blood samples of 3 severely poisoned children. Authorities are actively investigating and clarifying the cause of the incident.
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