A seven-year-old child who had been hospitalized at the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC) since Saturday on suspicion of severe food poisoning died on Monday, a hospital source confirmed to Lusa on Tuesday.
The seven year old boy was Académica-OAF has canceled all events planned for this Tuesday.
“Today there is a deep silence at Académica-OAF. One of our boys and an athlete, just 7 years old, left us today in a tragedy that goes far beyond football and leaves us all with a feeling of unrelenting horror.” Academic Association of Coimbra on Facebook.
The mother, 48, remains in critical condition with a “very poor clinical prognosis” and the father, 44, and older brother, 12, have been discharged and are under observation after also being admitted to the facility the same day .
The Central Regional Health Authority (ARSC) confirmed the poisoning of four family members living in Coimbra and announced in a statement that it had opened an investigation to determine the cause of the poisoning.
“Biological samples were collected from patients in a hospital setting to determine the cause of poisoning,” the ARSC public health department said in a note.
The statement adds that as part of the epidemiological investigation, “Public Health conducted home visits to collect food samples (presumably food and other products consumed in a family context) and biological samples,” which were sent to reference laboratories for chemical and biological agents.
For what CM As it turned out, suspicions of poisoning, which are still under analysis, fall on a dish of meatballs that the family ate.
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