Ca Mau Provincial General Hospital announced on Monday evening that three drunk women admitted with symptoms of methanol poisoning had died.
According to a report from the hospital, the 54-year-old woman died before arriving at the hospital while two others aged 37 and 44 who were in critical conditions died shortly after being admitted.
"Despite giving them intensive care and treatment, we were unable to save them," the hospital said. "They died from methanol poisoning."
Police from Cai Nuoc District said that the three women showed signs of poisoning after drinking rice liquor.
"They belonged to a group of six women who had consumed five litres of rice liquor in two days from 9 am on July 20 to 1 pm on July 21," the police reported. "Three of them started suffering from dizziness, breathing difficulties and nausea on the evening of July 22 and were sent to hospital. Three others were in stable health."
The families of the three women didn't ask for an autopsy but police are still further investigating the cause of the death.
Despite being banned, methanol is still being used in rice liquor production in Vietnam.
On July 25, a rice liquor producer in the northern province of Hung Yen, Nguyen Van Quynh, 45, was sentenced to 17 years in jail in a case where three people died in 2020 after drinking homemade rice liquor which was found to contain methanol.
Three drunk women die from methanol poisoning
Ca Mau Provincial General Hospital announced on Monday evening that three drunk women admitted with symptoms of methanol poisoning had died.
Source: dtinews.vn
