A Filipino family’s vacation to popular beach destination Boracay ended on a sour note when all its members experienced food poisoning on Tuesday.
Boracay Fire Rescue Ambulance Volunteers respondent Rodel Bachiller told Coconuts Manila that their chief Admiral Leonard Tirol received a call from a concerned mother at around 4:30am yesterday.
After talking with one of the fathers in the group of 16, Bachiller learned that the whole family had dinner at a restaurant in Boracay’s Station 1 and that all of them had symptoms of food poisoning after. Six of them had to stay in clinics where they received fluids intravenously after experiencing vomiting and diarrhea.
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Four patients aged 4, 7, 17, and 34 years old were at the Boracay Alert Medical Clinic (AMC) while two others aged 3 and 35 years old were at the Metropolitan Doctors Medical Clinic (MDMC). The two patients had to stay in MDMC because AMC did not have enough beds.
The family told rescuers that they had eaten a variety of dishes the night before and did not specify what could have caused the food poisoning.
Rescuers picked the victims up from the hospitals at around 6:15am and brought them to the Cagban Port. According to Bachiller, the family decided to fly to Manila and seek further treatment in the city.
