Doctors at the main children’s hospital in Poland said that a 5-year-old Afghan boy who was recently evacuated from Kabul has died. His 6-year-old brother underwent a liver transplant and was still in a life-threatening condition after they ate poisonous food. mushroom.
Last week, after their family picked and ate dead cap mushrooms in the forest surrounding the refugee center in Podkowa Leśna near Warsaw, the boy and their sister became ill.
Doctors at the Warsaw Institute of Children’s Health Center said that his brother had successfully undergone a liver transplant, but his brain was seriously damaged and life-threatening. The younger brother was pronounced dead. The doctor said that the parents received psychological treatment in the hospital.
The boy’s 17-year-old sister has been discharged from the hospital and is in good condition. Some other family members were hospitalized elsewhere but are now recovering. After the Taliban took over Poland, Poland evacuated the family at the request of the United Kingdom last month. Afghanistan. Father worked for the British.
According to the National Foreigners Office, in another incident in another center near Warsaw, four Afghan men were treated in a hospital after eating poisonous mushrooms.
The death cap mushroom is one of the most poisonous mushrooms in the world, very similar to the edible parasol mushroom popular in Poland.
