Garut Health Office Screening The Community For Food Toxic Detection

Patients who were poisoned underwent medical treatment at the Cilawu Health Center, Garut Regency, West Java, Tuesday (12/10/2023). (ANTARA/HO-Diskominfo Garut)

A team from the Garut Regency Health Office (Dinkes), West Java conducted a screening of people in Cilawu District to detect early poisoning of satay jebred or skin satai. If you show symptoms of illness and have a history of consuming satai, medical treatment will be immediately carried out. "We are doing field screening, he really has a history of certain foods, which are suspected of causing poisoning, we will submit them to a new report, additional cases," said Head of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) at the Garut District Health Office Asep Surachman when contacted by reporters in Garut, Antara, Thursday, October 12. The team from the Garut Health Office gave an appeal to people who complained of illness and showed symptoms of poisoning such as nausea, dizziness, and vomiting to immediately come to the health care facility. In addition, he said, the team also carried out verification in the field if they received information that there were residents who were sick to check for their illness due to food poisoning or not. "Alleged food poisoning, we will add it, if he has no history of eating anything, with what is suspected so far, we will remove the food (not the victim of poisoning)," he said. He conveyed that the health team continued to collect data in the field to determine the number of victims of food poisoning suspected of being from satay. So far, he said, data in the field has increased, including 35-year-old patients who died in hospitals who were only known to have consumed satay. The latest report on the number of residents who were victims of food poisoning in Cilawu District was 52 people, with details of 41 residents of Cilawu, 11 people being treated, 28 outpatients, and two people dying. Meanwhile, 11 residents from outside the area from Cigalontang District, Tasikmalaya Regency, recorded at the Cilawu Health Center, with details of 1 person being treated, 9 outpatients, and 1 person dying. "Still young, yes, the person who died, there were no complaints of any illness, but yes it felt like nausea, vomiting, he was dizzy, limp, and taken to a hospital, and it died there," he said. He added that regarding the results of the laboratory for examining food samples and vomit in the case of food poisoning, it could not be known, the process took quite a long time, namely the fastest a week. The laboratory test, he said, was not only carried out by the Garut Health Office, but also by the Garut Resort Police which was tested at the Police Headquarters Laboratory Center. "Which is faster, that will be one of the indications from everywhere, the cause," said Asep. Previously, a number of residents from Cilawu District, Garut Regency and outside the area from Cigalontang District, Tasikmalaya Regency complained of nausea, dizziness and vomiting, so they had to receive medical treatment at the Cilawu Health Center, Sunday (8/10) night. A day later, more and more poisoned residents, there were even two elderly people who died, namely Garut residents and Tasikmalaya residents, and finally one Garut resident died, Tuesday (10/10).