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In less than 36 hours, 23 patients presented to the emergency room of the Giglio di Cefalù Foundation with neurological symptoms. The first diagnosis of Giglio’s healthcare workers is suspicion of botulinum poisoning.
Diagnosis that must be confirmed by the Superior Institute of Health of Rome to which Giglio Foundation He has already sent, yesterday afternoon, the first samples (serum, stool, gastric aspirate) taken from the patients who arrived at the emergency room. The Giglio Foundation through the Cav (Pavia Toxicology Center), with which it has been in constant contact from the first patient, has found the antidote, present in another Sicilian hospital. The number of patients in the ER has increased by the hour, with the 23rd admission to the hospital this afternoon.
“We are following – said Health Director Salvatore Vizzi – the epidemiological evolution since the number of subjects who would have shared a meal in a company canteen is important. We are in close contact – added Vizzi – with the Dasoe of the Regional Department of Health. “.
Of the 23 patients accepted by Giglio’s ED, three were transferred to intensive care last nightIn the “Cimino” of Termini Imerese, 4 were hospitalized in medicine, one in neurology and nine were discharged. Six, at this time, are under observation in the emergency area of the Cefalù hospital.
“The disease -explained the emergency chief Emanuele Sesti- is evolutionary, so patients are constantly monitored.”
“The Company has provided maximum assistance to employees hospitalized for food poisoning from the first minutes after the incident. This is an event that sees the Company and its employees as an injured party and in which the Company itself asks for clarity.” This is what we read in a note from Toto Construction, in relation to the matter of some of its workers who are dedicated to the duplication of the Palermo-Messina railway, who became intoxicated and ended up in the hospital after having lunch in the work canteen.
“Toto’s internal service doctors are in constant contact with colleagues in health establishments where our employees have been hospitalized,” the note continues. Constant and continuous contact is with the families of hospitalized employees and in particular with those who reside outside the hospital. The company at the Cefalù site has entrusted the food preparation and distribution service to a primary and certified company in the area. Require and provide in the supply contract all the hygienic, sanitary and food guarantees, both in the preparation and in the transport and distribution of food “.
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