Tasikmalaya Police Investigate Case Of Toxic Food Celebration

Head of the Tasikmalaya Police Criminal Investigation Unit AKP Ari Rinaldo when interviewed by reporters in Tasikmalaya, West Java, Thursday (3/8/2023). BETWEEN/Feri Purnama.

TASIKMALAYA - Tasikmalaya Police conducted an investigation into the case of a poisoned resident allegedly due to eating food at a celebration event in Karangnunggal District, Tasikmalaya Regency, West Java. "The police are now investigating the victim and also carrying out the activity, to determine whether or not there is a criminal element," said Head of the Tasikmalaya Police Criminal Investigation Unit AKP Ari Rinaldo in Tasikmalaya, Antara, Thursday, August 3. He said the police had received information about the incident of a number of residents who were taken to the puskesmas because they were suspected of being poisoned after eating food at a celebration in Cibatu Village, Karangnunggal District, Tuesday, August 1. Regarding the number of residents who received treatment because they were suspected of having food poisoning, he said, as many as 25 people, and currently there are five left, while other patients have been allowed to go home. "Now there are only five people, hopefully all of them will get better today," said Ari. He conveyed that the police are currently trying to investigate more deeply the case of suspected food poisoning at the celebration by taking samples of food served for laboratory tests. According to him, residents who complain of being sick are the same simultaneously and must be taken to the puskesmas may be due to the food factors consumed at the celebration event in their village. "What is clear is that maybe from the food that was carried out at the event, the food samples have been secured," he said. Head of the Technical Implementation Unit of the Karangnunggal Health Center, Dadan Kusnanto, stated that a team from the Public Health Center's Quick Action had moved to deal with residents suspected of having food poisoning by providing medicine and oral liquid. He conveyed that residents who received medical treatment complained of headaches, diarrhea, weakness, nausea, and vomiting, after eating the food served at a celebration event in the area.

The peak of the patient's arrival to the puskesmas, he said, was on Wednesday (2/8) afternoon, with various conditions of serious complaints and immediately receiving intensive treatment at the Karangnunggal Health Center, until now the patient's condition has generally returned to stable.