SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao — Fourteen victims of suspected food poisoning here were brought to a hospital Sunday afternoon after complaining of stomach and abdominal pains and dizziness.
The victims were having a family outing at a beach and were reported to have eaten smoked-grilled fish and macaroni salad for lunch. They were all rushed to Cotabato Sanitarium Hospital in Barangay Bulalo of this town.
Alice Upi, one of the victims, said that a few minutes after eating grilled fish and salad they complained of stomach and abdominal pains and dizziness.
Some of them later vomited and had loose bowel movement.
Upi said they had just gone back swimming at the time.
Shukra Adam, mother of five of the victims confined at the hospital, said her youngest child, a three-year-old, also suffered Sunday night aside from vomiting, stomach pain and loose bowel movement.
“I’m not sure whether it was the grilled fish or macaroni that caused the stomach pain and loose bowel movement,” Adam said in Filipino.
Laboratory tests done on Sunday night showed the victims had amoebiasis based on their stool samples.
Dr. Halima Mokamad Romancap, Cotabato Sanitarium attending physician said the victims came around 3pm Sunday.
“We are trying to stabilize their condition. We need to rehydrate them,” Roman-cap said.
She said the patients told her all of them ate the same food – the grilled fish and macaroni.
She, however, said no samples of the food were available as the victims immediately threw it away after suspecting that it was the cause of the poisoning.
“But since they all ate the same food, we can only surmise that was the culprit,” Romancap said. (Minda News)
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