{"id":443123,"date":"2011-06-17T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T12:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/17\/doctors-birthday-revelers-may-have-been-chemically-poisoned\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T12:12:07","slug":"doctors-birthday-revelers-may-have-been-chemically-poisoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/17\/doctors-birthday-revelers-may-have-been-chemically-poisoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors: Birthday revelers may have been chemically poisoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1d532aea020x20175.jpg.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>Sample tests results from the Adabraka Polyclinic on patients who were rushed to the Clinic with severe diarrhea, indicate that the patients might have been chemically poisoned.<\/p>\n<p>The Polyclinic authorities say they suspected normal diarrhea or food poisoning when the patients were rushed to the clinic on Monday but after the tests, it has come out that there was nothing like poison in their faeces.<\/p>\n<p>About twelve people were rushed to the Adabraka Polyclinic for allegedly eating food containing poison at their grandfather\u2018s 70th birthday celebration at Adabraka in Accra resulting in the death of at least one person. Unconfirmed reports say thirty others are showing similar symptoms and are receiving treatment from other health facilities within the metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>The Disease Control Officer of Osu Klotey Sub-Metro office of the Ghana Health Service at the Adabraka Polyclinic, Lord Kpabitey told Asempa News\u2019 Kwaku Antwi-Otoo that, the early results were from the samples of those who took first aid or self medication when they started experiencing the diarrhea. He however said their results may not be accurate due to the first aid.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kpabitey added that they took samples of a man and a woman to the Reference Laboratory of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital but there was no germ or bacterial of food poisoning or diarrhea.\u00a0 This he stated gives room for them to suspect chemical poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether the Hospital would conduct further chemical tests on the patients to establish the actual cause of their illness, Mr. Kpabitey told Asempa News that they are waiting for the results of those who did not practice any form of self medication to determine whether they are going to do further tests or not.<\/p>\n<p>Story by Kwaku Antwi-Otoo\/Asempa FM\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Excerpt from:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Sample tests results from the Adabraka Polyclinic on patients who were rushed to the Clinic with severe diarrhea, indicate that the patients might have been chemically poisoned. The Polyclinic authorities say they suspected normal diarrhea or food poisoning when the patients were rushed to the clinic on Monday but after the tests, it has come out that there was nothing like poison in their faeces. About twelve people were rushed to the Adabraka Polyclinic for allegedly eating food containing poison at their grandfather\u2018s 70th birthday celebration at Adabraka in Accra resulting in the death of at least one person. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":443104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-443123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Doctors: Birthday revelers may have been chemically poisoned - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/17\/doctors-birthday-revelers-may-have-been-chemically-poisoned\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Doctors: Birthday revelers may have been chemically poisoned - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sample tests results from the Adabraka Polyclinic on patients who were rushed to the Clinic with severe diarrhea, indicate that the patients might have been chemically poisoned. 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