Regarding the suspected food poisoning incident after eating bread at a bakery on Nguyen Thai Son Street (Hanh Thong Ward), on the morning of November 8, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health said that it had recorded reports from 4 hospitals with more than 80 cases, of which 47 cases had been discharged from the hospital.
Military Hospital 175 has 47 cases; Tam Anh General Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City has 16 cases; Gia Dinh People's Hospital has 19 cases, Binh Da Hospital has 1 case.
At Gia Dinh People's Hospital alone, on November 5, out of 19 hospitalizations, 1 case was recorded with symptoms of severe abdominal pain and repeated vomiting and diarrhea, with blood culture results positive for Salmonella bacteria.
Currently, most of the poisoned patients in hospitals have stabilized, some have been discharged from the hospital. The remaining cases continue to be treated according to the regimen issued by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has directed hospitals to ensure admission, classification and handling according to the food poisoning treatment regimen. If there is an antibiotic indication, consider the direction of the intestinal microbial agents of the Salmonella group and adjust according to antibiotic products when available.
Initially, clinical and paraclinical data of most patients with food poisoning after eating bread were consistent with the biological agents of gut bacteria, most likely Salmonella. Hospitals that allow treatment have coordinated to provide information to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Food Safety to serve the traceability and verification work.
The Department of Food Safety has temporarily suspended the operation of the related facility to investigate and collect food and environmental samples. At the same time, carry out professional steps to determine the cause of the poisoning according to proper authority.
Previously, on April 29, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health issued a treatment plan for food poisoning and organized training for all hospitals in the area to unify how to handle cases of suspected food poisoning.
