Senegal - Kolda: 1 death, 26 people hospitalized following an evening meal

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Mystery around a tragedy in Kolda: 1 death, 26 individuals in the emergency room after a meal

26 people in a state of emergency and one dead. This is the report of an unknown disease that rages in Kolda. According to the Rfm, who gave the information, all the victims shared the same evening meal which triggered vomiting and diarrhea.

The 26 people including 7 children are in critical condition. They were interned at the Kolda Regional Hospital. One of the child victims of this disease, gave up the ghost and was buried.

However, local authorities demanded the exhumation of the body for an autopsy.


Aminata Diouf

Thursday 27 December 2018 - 09:58

https://www.pressafrik.com/Mystere-autour-d-un-drame-a-Kolda-1-mort-26-individus-aux-urgences-apres-un-repas_a194199.html

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KOLDA: Food poisoning in Sar? Dialiman (Medina Yoro Foula) makes one death and 26 hospitalized.

A food poisoning caused one death and 26 patients hospitalized by the consumption of a couscous having spent the night in Sar? Dialiman (commune of Koulinto) in the department of Medina Yoro Foula. The facts that occurred on Monday, December 24th would certainly result from a couscous soiled by insects, or other rodents.

A total of 27 people were victims of food poisoning, including a serious case, that of a child who subsequently died at the health station of the Agency of Muslims of Africa in Kolda and buried. Informed of the death, the prosecutor ordered that the lifeless body of the child be exhumed for the purpose of the autopsy. What was done by firefighters in the company of the gendarmerie this Wednesday, December 26. Meanwhile, the results of this autopsy, the remaining 26 victims are being treated at the health district and Kolda regional hospital where they have been evacuated by their relatives since Tuesday, December 25. However, their days would not be in danger, informs a medical source.

It should be noted that many individuals die in similar circumstances, sometimes due to lack of first aid or isolation of the area. For this reason, food should be covered for hygienic reasons to prevent such cases.

Thursday, December 27, 2018
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https://www.dakaractu.com/KOLDA-Intoxication-alimentaire-a-Sare-Dialiman-Medina-Yoro-Foula-fait-un-mort-et-26-hospitalises_a162369.html

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Contaminated Couscous in Kolda: Autopsy Reveals Food Poisoning

Posted on December 29, 2018

IGFM-The case of contaminated couscous in Sar? Dialimang who killed a child and sent 23 other people to the hospital, is about to reveal all its secrets. The autopsy of the dead body of the dead child buried, then exhumed on instruction of the Prosecutor, revealed a food poisoning of a harmful substance. All the other patients were released yesterday, except the lady Dado Diao.

Always shocked by the tragic loss of one of their children, the child Samba Kand?, who died after having eaten a dish of contaminated couscous and who had sent 23 other people to the hospital, Sar? Dialimang crosses his fingers and prays intensely so that this misfortune stops there. And the information gathered yesterday at the Kolda Regional Hospital Center and the health center is rather good and very reassuring.

Of the fifteen people (eight adults and seven children) still on medical observation in these health facilities in Kolda City, only one lady, Dado Diao, who is undergoing intensive care treatment at the hospital level where she is hospitalized. All the other patients (12 at the regional hospital and 2 at the health center) were released by the medical authorities considering that their lives are no longer in danger. A thesis that had been confirmed by the director of Kolda Regional Hospital.

"We had received a total of 23 patients, the ten were released the day after their arrival. Only 13 remain, including seven adults hospitalized in General Medicine and six children hospitalized in the Pediatrics ward. Their lives are not in danger, "said the director of the regional hospital, Sheikh Mbaye Seck. The twelve were released yesterday, there remains only the lady Dado Diao, in medical observation. At the health center where was hospitalized the lady Ma?mouna Bald? (22 years old), mother of Samba Kand? (the deceased child), and Amadou Kand? (9 years old) were also authorized by the attending doctors to go find his family in Sar? Dialimang . So, more fear than harm, if, however, this sad affair has no limit to a single loss in human life.

Regarding the autopsy of the dead body of the deceased child, Samba Kand?, who was buried and then exhumed on the instructions of the Prosecutor at the Kolda High Court, this medical intervention confirmed a food poisoning. It is "a food poisoning that has been mentioned on paper", a harmful substance, told us Bacary Sabaly, close relative of the victim who was yesterday, the lifting of the body at the morgue of the regional hospital of Kolda where the remains were given to the parents.

The deceased Samba Kand? who was buried yesterday at 17H, now rests in the cemetery of his native village. May the land of Sar? Dialimang be light to him and may Allah welcome him to His heavenly Paradise. Amine.

SOULEYMANE SALL

https://www.igfm.sn/couscous-contamine-a-kolda-lautopsie-revele-une-intoxication-alimentaire/