Urgent emergency treatment for suspected food poisoning patients in Nghi Loc district

On the evening of December 6, Nghe An Department of Health issued Official Dispatch No. 4212/SYT-NVY on transporting, receiving, emergency handling, and treating suspected patients.poisoningFood sent to Nghi Loc District People's Committee; Food Safety and Hygiene Department; General Friendship Hospitals, Nghi Loc, 115, Cua Dong; other public and non-public medical examination and treatment facilities.

According to the Official Dispatch: At 4:00 p.m. on December 6, the Department of Health received information from the Food Safety and Hygiene Department about cases of patients showing signs ofpoisoningFood in Nghi Loc district.

To ensure the transportation, reception, emergency treatment and care of patients suspected of food poisoning in Nghi Loc district, the Department of Health requests the Nghi Loc District People's Committee to direct the Food Safety and Hygiene Steering Committee, the District Health Department, the Management Board of WHA Nghe An Industrial Park and companies to coordinate with medical units in the process of handling, investigating and providing emergency care to patients with food poisoning.

Nghi Loc General Hospital, 115 General Hospital, and Cua Dong General Hospital organize the reception, emergency care, treatment, and monitoring of patients suspected of food poisoning, coordinate professional support, human resources, and promptly transport patients with severe food poisoning to higher-level medical facilities when beyond professional capacity; review and prepare to arrange human resources, medicine, supplies, medical equipment, and hospital beds to the maximum extent, receive, handle, and treat patients suspected of food poisoning transferred.

Coordinate with the Food Safety and Hygiene Department and Nghi Loc District Medical Center to provide medical records, clinical and paraclinical test results and related information to serve the handling and investigation of suspected food poisoning cases; collect, preserve and hand over clinical samples to the investigation unit to send for testing to determine the cause of suspected food poisoning cases if necessary.

Nghe An General Hospital directs the External Emergency Team to be ready to support Nghi Loc General Hospital, 115, Cua Dong and lower-level units if necessary under the direction of the Department of Health; directs the Department of Resuscitation and Anti-Poison and related departments to prepare plans, be ready to arrange human resources, medicine, supplies, and medical equipment to be ready to receive severe cases transferred from lower-level units.

Nghi Loc District Health Center and Hung Nguyen District Health Center directed the Health Stations of communes/towns to be ready to receive suspected cases of food poisoning, especially patients who are workers at WHA Industrial Park. Nghi Loc District Health Center coordinated with the Food Safety and Hygiene Department to investigate the cause of the food poisoning.

The Food Safety and Hygiene Department organizes the investigation, coordinates with the People's Committee, the Department of Health of Nghi Loc district and related units to direct the implementation of investigation activities, promptly handle and overcome the consequences of suspected food poisoning cases; implements the regime of quick reporting, updating information to the Department of Health; and at the same time advises the Department of Health to report the developments of the food poisoning case to the Provincial Food Safety and Hygiene Steering Committee.

Instructions for the Management Board of WHA Nghe An Industrial Park to notify all employees who attended lunch with patients on December 6, 2024 to immediately go to the nearest medical facility if there are unusual signs such as: Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea,...

Other public and non-public medical facilities are ready to receive, provide emergency care and treatment to patients suspected of food poisoning upon arrival at the facility; promptly transport seriously ill patients to higher-level medical facilities when beyond professional capacity.

As reported by Nghe An Newspaper: On December 6, there was a food poisoning incident in the province that required 63 people to be hospitalized. Accordingly, after lunch, 63 workers from 2 companies in WHA Industrial Park (Nghi Long Commune, Nghi Loc District) and VSIP Industrial Park experienced headaches, nausea, hot flashes, some cases had chest tightness, redness, rashes on the face, neck, arms, and fatigue.

The workers were hospitalized for treatment (42 patients were treated at Nghi Loc General Hospital, 12 patients were treated at 115 General Hospital and 9 patients at Cua Dong General Hospital). After receiving intravenous fluids, antihistamines, corticosteroids... all workers' health was stable.