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Panic as 18 children in a Mumias hospital after eating poisonous fruits
BY ALEX WAKHISI Updated Tuesday, February 3rd 2015 at 11:22 GMT
Eighteen children from one village have been admitted to St Mary?s Hospital Mumias after eating wild fruits suspected to be poisonous.
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Phaustine Lung?aso, the nursing officer at the hospital, said the children who were in critical condition when they were admitted to the facility were now stable.
?The children were vomiting and they were treated for wild fruit poisoning,? said Lung?aso, adding that most of them were between two and 12 years.
Asha Osman, whose seven grandchildren were among the victims, said the children complained of stomach ache after eating the fruits before their condition worsened.
...?The tree on which the fruits grow has been here for years, but we have never known that they are poisonous,? said Ms Osman.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/thec...ren-in-hospital-after-eating-poisonous-fruits
BY ALEX WAKHISI Updated Tuesday, February 3rd 2015 at 11:22 GMT
Eighteen children from one village have been admitted to St Mary?s Hospital Mumias after eating wild fruits suspected to be poisonous.
...
Phaustine Lung?aso, the nursing officer at the hospital, said the children who were in critical condition when they were admitted to the facility were now stable.
?The children were vomiting and they were treated for wild fruit poisoning,? said Lung?aso, adding that most of them were between two and 12 years.
Asha Osman, whose seven grandchildren were among the victims, said the children complained of stomach ache after eating the fruits before their condition worsened.
...?The tree on which the fruits grow has been here for years, but we have never known that they are poisonous,? said Ms Osman.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/thec...ren-in-hospital-after-eating-poisonous-fruits