The meal held last Sunday in a restaurant in Torre Pacheco and organized by the seniors' club of the Cartagena provincial council of La Palma ended with at least a hundred people poisoned. The General Directorate of Public Health and Addictions is currently aware that there are around twenty people affected, although the organizing group assured LA VERDAD that there could be as many as one hundred. It was all laughter and joy until two days after the celebration they began to feel unwell. Of the 262 guests, around 100 have presented symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, chills, fever and diarrhea.
“Yesterday I started having a fever and feeling sick, I thought I had caught the flu or that something had made me feel bad,” said Lidia García, a resident of La Palma and one of the convalescents. “As soon as I felt this way, I started getting messages saying that other people who had attended the same meal were also feeling like this. We think it had to be something we ate there, but we still don't know what it was,” she explained. Guests tasted dishes such as tomato toast with salmon, piquillo peppers stuffed with salad and soufflé.
Those affected are already going to their health centers and the Santa Lucía hospital to have blood and stool samples taken. These tests will be analyzed with the aim of finding the reason for the poisoning. The patients still do not have a clear diagnosis of the gastric disease that affects them, so they have been prescribed a soft diet and plenty of hydration.
Go to the health center
The rest of the people who attended the celebration must go to the counter of their health center to give their contact information and have Health call them to follow up with them, even if they are fine for the moment. This is the case of her husband and Lidia García's mother, who attended the event with her, but have not yet shown symptoms of poisoning.
“We had a great time, the president has apologized, but he is not to blame, we did not imagine what was going to happen,” lamented the affected woman. Several members of the senior management are contacting the people who went to see how they are and inform them of the procedure to follow.
According to sources from the association's management, Health is already carrying out analyzes on the food and they will also be carried out on the waiters who worked that day at the establishment. In addition, they have requested a detailed list of all the people who attended. Inspectors from the General Directorate of Public Health and Addictions will carry out an inspection of the premises to determine the causes of the poisoning.
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