A girl died in Cali from eating gunpowder when she believed it was a sweet – Cali – Colombia



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The Cali Health Secretary, Miyerlandi Torres, specified that a 5-year-old girl arrived from Cartagena to Cali a week ago, because in the city they were trying to save her life with a liver transplant The capital of Valle del Cauca was the option, taking into account the experience and trajectory of doctors in performing this delicate procedure.

Therefore, it was the transfer, sent by order of a health provider institution (IPS) in the Caribbean, where he entered after the poisoning.

According to the official, the little girl had ingested gunpowder in the Bolivarian capital. Apparently, the minor mistook white phosphorus, an element in fireworks, for a sweet.

The girl had gastrointestinal damage and, in addition, a failure in your liver and kidneys.

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They ask the community to avoid gunpowder and less to leave it within the reach of children so that unfortunate events like this are not repeated.

Although the health personnel of the hospital entity in Cali made efforts to save the girl, she died due to the serious damage caused by the gunpowder.

At the Mayor’s Office and the Health Secretariat of Cali, they reiterated that the girl was not poisoned in Cali, but in Cartagena.

However, they make a call to parents so that neither in Cali nor in the Valley an event such as the one that occurred in the Colombian Caribbean be recorded.

In Cali, 11 were burned with gunpowder until this Wednesday, December 16.

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