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Hundreds Fall Ill After Eating Sandwiches at NGO Event
BY MECH DARA | MARCH 30, 2015
About 800 villagers fell ill in Siem Reap province on Saturday after eating tainted sandwiches at an event organized by World Vision about the dangers of child labor, the organization and local officials said Sunday.
About 120 villagers were still receiving treatment at local health clinics Sunday afternoon, mostly for exhaustion caused by food poisoning from sandwiches that were distributed at the event in Chi Kreng district?s Pongro Loeu commune, according to Channpheaktra Hong, public relations officer for World Vision.
Mr. Hong said the Christian aid organization was working with local health clinics and hospitals to ensure that there was enough space and staff to treat the sick villagers, and had prepared ambulances to transport patients to the provincial referral hospital if their condition worsened.
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?We will continue to monitor the situation, but the number of people who are in the hospital is decreasing, so we hope that it will get better by tomorrow,? Mr. Hong said.
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https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-fall-ill-after-eating-sandwiches-at-ngo-event-80967/
BY MECH DARA | MARCH 30, 2015
About 800 villagers fell ill in Siem Reap province on Saturday after eating tainted sandwiches at an event organized by World Vision about the dangers of child labor, the organization and local officials said Sunday.
About 120 villagers were still receiving treatment at local health clinics Sunday afternoon, mostly for exhaustion caused by food poisoning from sandwiches that were distributed at the event in Chi Kreng district?s Pongro Loeu commune, according to Channpheaktra Hong, public relations officer for World Vision.
Mr. Hong said the Christian aid organization was working with local health clinics and hospitals to ensure that there was enough space and staff to treat the sick villagers, and had prepared ambulances to transport patients to the provincial referral hospital if their condition worsened.
...
?We will continue to monitor the situation, but the number of people who are in the hospital is decreasing, so we hope that it will get better by tomorrow,? Mr. Hong said.
...
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-fall-ill-after-eating-sandwiches-at-ngo-event-80967/