3:40 PM
Friday, April 10, 2009
Food poisoning at Geylang Serai market left 2 women dead. Sad :-(
Quoted from The Straits Times on Apr 9:
Second woman dies
THE worst food-poisoning outbreak here claimed its second victim on Wednesday.
Madam Noraini Kasim, 58, died in Alexandra Hospital without coming out of the coma into which she lapsed during the weekend.
Her retired husband of two years, Mr Mohd Salleh Sarip, 65, is in shock over how quickly her condition worsened: On Friday, hours after a mid-afternoon meal of Indian rojak from the stall named Rojak Geylang Serai in the Geylang Serai market, she came down with diarrhoea.
It was so bad that she was trailing blood as she made her way to the toilet.
She was admitted to hospital only the next day, when her condition did not improve and a doctor told her husband to get her to a hospital.
Her heart stopped at least thrice during the weekend before she entered a coma.
Mr Mohd Salleh said he had not been alarmed by his wife's bleeding, thinking it to be 'simply diarrhoea'.
In the hospital, he was told that treatment for his wife - who had diabetes and hypertension - was complicated because her heart rate and blood pressure were low.
Madam Noraini was with a friend for that meal of Indian rojak. Her friend, who ate only a little of it, was fine.
But neither Madam Noraini nor the first victim, Madam Aminah Samijo, 57, who died on Monday, were as lucky. Another 144 people were treated as outpatients or had to be hospitalised.
Among them was Madam Rosiah Samat, 38, who had diarrhoea on Friday evening, followed by a miscarriage. She was discharged but re-admitted on Tuesday for residual stomach pains. She is expected to be discharged on Thursday.