About 1,000 workers at Wondo Vina Co Ltd in Cho Gao District,
southern Tien Giang province are being treated in many hospitals in the
province after suffering from food poisoning symptoms this morning.
Wondo Vina Co Ltd is a 100-percent South Korean-owned company that
produces outdoor clothing including Gore-Tex jackets, down jackets,
skiwear and golfwear, and employs more than 2,500 workers. According to
the victims, after having lunch at the company yesterday, many of them
developed belly pains, vomiting, diarrhea, and headache. Their
conditions got worse this morning when they came to the company for
work, and some of them passed out before being taken to hospitals. A
company’s worker, Pham Quoc Khoi, said the foods in yesterday lunch
include fried fish, pickles, vegetable soup, and fried fish balls. At
7:30 am this morning, the Cho Gao District Hospital was full and could
no longer receive any victims, so many patients were taken to other
hospitals. Many patients, due to critical conditions, had to be
transferred to Tien Giang Central General Hospital for intensive
treatment. All these hospitals said they have mobilized all forces and
facilities to examine and treat the poisoned workers. Dr. Huynh Tho Man,
director of the Tien Giang Central General Hospital, said this morning
that doctors could not yet identify the cause of the poisoning.
Therefore, all patients will be given fluid transfusion first and
doctors will later apply further treatment to them on a case-by-case
basis, Dr. Man said. Concerned agencies are working with the company to
investigate the cause of the poisoning.
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