00:00 Currently, more than 100 patients have been hospitalized after being poisoned by a food ration of an NGO in Agusan del Sur.
00:12 This is the story of Julius Pacot.
00:14 On Monday night, more than 100 residents of Barangay Tandangsora, Esperanza, Agusan del Sur,
00:26 after experiencing a poisoning and a stomach ache,
00:30 according to the residents, they only ate a packed lunch with eggs, chicken liver, and rice from the Philippine Red Cross Agusan del Sur Chapter.
00:40 The symptoms are like, they say that someone might have eaten or drunk, but we haven't checked yet.
00:49 So, please give us time to check this.
00:54 Yesterday, Agusan del Sur Governor Santi Cane Jr. visited the victims of food poisoning and the provincial government issued an order
01:04 to stop the distribution of food from the Philippine Red Cross Agusan del Sur Chapter while investigating the incident.
01:12 Authorities are assuring that they will help the patients with the hospital bills.
01:17 They are assuring that everything is okay so that they can go home. Because the patients are thinking of paying for the hospital,
01:27 Governor Santiago Cane Jr. assured that the residents of the hospital cannot pay a single peso.
01:35 The incident was saddened by the Philippine Red Cross Agusan del Sur Chapter.
01:39 However, they still promised to continue to provide assistance to the province affected by the heavy rainfall that resulted from the trough of LPA this month.
01:50 The Department of Health-Caraga Region got samples of water from Barangay Tandang Sora, Esperanza and stools from the patient to be tested in the lab.
02:00 The investigation team and the surveillance team of the Department of Health is supplying water to Barangay Tandang Sora because they were submerged in the water two days ago.
02:13 They were tested by the Agusan del Sur. They got all the samples.
02:19 According to the Esperanza Medical Community Hospital, from 8 p.m. last night, 24 patients were discharged from the inpatient.
02:28 67 were discharged from the outpatient while 50 were under observation.
02:34 Julius Pacot for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Pilipinas.
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