Ho Chi Minh City: One More Patient Hospitalized in Critical Condition After Using Pate Minh Chay | News



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According to the Cho Ray Hospital, currently patients involved in the use of Pate Minh Chay are being treated in the Department of Tropical Diseases in a state of paralysis, requiring mechanical ventilation.
This is the eighth case hospitalized in Ho Chi Minh City in critical condition after eating Pate Minh Chay. There have been 5 patients discharged from Cho Ray Hospital to continue treatment in the localities and currently this hospital still has 1 case under treatment.

In addition, 2 cases are being treated at the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases, in which one person is still on mechanical ventilation and the other is practicing to stop the ventilator.

Emergency warning Minh Chay’s pate contains highly virulent bacteria

On the morning of August 31, Associate Professor Dr. Pham Khanh Phong Lan, Head of the Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board sent an official dispatch to 24 districts in the area to urgently handle unsafe products related to many hospitalized patient after eating Pate Minh Chay.

Accordingly, the Food Safety Management Board asked the 24-district People’s Committee to inspect and monitor the market, proactively recall Pate Minh Chay and New Lifestyle Two-Member Co., Ltd. products (group 2, TT .Dong Anh, H. Dong Anh District, Hanoi) and specific announcement about the Food Safety Management Board. 13 Products Including: Pate Minh Chay, Lion’s Mane Mushroom Pate, Heri Premium Mushroom Soup, Special Sesame Salt, Heri Heri Mushrooms, Blind Rice Silk Rolls, Traditional Peanut Salt, Wheat Cinnamon, Salt sesame, wheat mushroom rolls, traditional mushroom rolls, lemongrass and chili paste, garlic flakes.

Associate Professor Dr Pham Khanh Phong Lan also said that the Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board just verified that 1,290 Ho Chi Minh City customers bought 1,559 boxes of Pate Minh Chay in July and August 2020 using an online form. The Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board contacted the buyer to advise them to stop consuming and proceed with the recall. The Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board is also conducting a review of the stores.

Two sisters poisoned with pate Minh Chay in Ho Chi Minh City are still on mechanical ventilation

An investigation by the Food Safety Office (Ministry of Health) showed that all patients were using Pate Minh Chay products from New Lifestyle Two-member Co., Ltd. Initial test results of some “Pate Minh Chay” products from different batches detected Clostridium botulinum type B. They are absolute anaerobic bacteria that produce spores. The toxin of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum has a very strong virulence, has a serious effect on health, is long-term and easily fatal. The Department of Food Safety recommends that people temporarily not buy or use the 13 products from the company listed above.




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