The second child of an Afghan family evacuated from Kabul to Poland After eating soup containing death cap mushrooms and died, the family gathered in the forest outside the isolation center without knowing it.
The 6-year-old boy underwent an emergency liver transplant, but the doctor was unable to save him. His five year old brother died Both were treated at the main children’s hospital in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday.
The boy’s 17-year-old sister was discharged after receiving treatment in the hospital and is in good condition. Doctors say the dose of toxin is less harmful to larger adults.
The authorities are investigating whether negligence may have contributed to the poisoning last week.
The family allegedly had two adults and four children. They found highly poisonous mushrooms in a forest near a center near Warsaw, where they were subjected to compulsory quarantine.
Aleksandra Skrzyniarz, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office, said that as part of the investigation, the prosecutor is asking the staff of the center about these incidents. The serious threat of loss of life was criminally charged. Warsaw said. She said that the maximum sentence for this crime is three years.
Interior Minister Mariusz Cummings said that the poisoning incident was “tragedy, but it was not caused by any negligence by the center.”
The authorities refuted media speculation that the center’s rations might be insufficient.
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 Army.
According to the National Foreigners Office, in another incident in another center near Warsaw, four Afghan men were hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms.
There are about 1,300 species of mushrooms in Poland, and about 200 of them are poisonous. They are a popular food, but you need to understand them very well to distinguish between toxic and edible foods.
Death cap mushrooms are one of the most poisonous mushrooms in the world and are very similar to edible toadstools in Poland.
mushroom Europe Often different from the home country of new immigrants, other similar mushroom poisoning cases have occurred in Germany and other places in the past few years.
In Denmark in 2017, two children from a Congolese refugee family died from eating poisonous mushrooms, and another nine family members were hospitalized.
