Dirty Drinking Water Suspected as 59 Hospitalized
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 10:23 am
Watch what you drink...
-Seventeen adults and 42 children from a village in Battambang province were hospitalized with suspected poisoning on Tuesday after possibly drinking contaminated water, a police official said on Wednesday.
The 59 patients, all from Kroper Tbong village in Banan district’s Phnom Sampov commune, were treated for vomiting and stomach pain at a local health center, said Mey Chhengly, the commune police chief.
“The weather was really hot. Maybe they drank unboiled water, making them [ill],” he said.
As of on Wednesday, all 59 patients had been discharged from the health center, he said, adding that they were all expected to make a full recovery...
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dirt ... ed-127958/
-Seventeen adults and 42 children from a village in Battambang province were hospitalized with suspected poisoning on Tuesday after possibly drinking contaminated water, a police official said on Wednesday.
The 59 patients, all from Kroper Tbong village in Banan district’s Phnom Sampov commune, were treated for vomiting and stomach pain at a local health center, said Mey Chhengly, the commune police chief.
“The weather was really hot. Maybe they drank unboiled water, making them [ill],” he said.
As of on Wednesday, all 59 patients had been discharged from the health center, he said, adding that they were all expected to make a full recovery...
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dirt ... ed-127958/