PEKAN, June 11 — The incident where a Form Five student and a two-year-old girl died due from food poisoning on Monday is still being investigated by the Health Ministry (MOH).
Its Deputy Minister Datuk Lukanisman Awang Sauni said the MOH is still investigating the matter, and its headquarters will issue a statement later.
"The case will be answered by the (Division of) Public Health (and) the headquarters will issue the statement. For now, it is still under investigation," he said at a press conference after a working visit to the district health office (PKD) in Pekan, Pahang, today.
Also present was Pahang Health director Datuk Dr Rusdi Abd Rahman.
On Tuesday, the police confirmed receiving two reports of death involving a 17-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl who died of suspected food poisoning from a religious school in Gombak.
Gombak district police chief ACP Noor Ariffin Mohamad Nasir was reported as saying the teenager had eaten food brought back by his mother after attending a religious programme at the school on Saturday (June 8).
After eating the food, the victim and his parents had diarrhoea, and at 1.30pm yesterday the victim lost consciousness while the second victim ate the food brought by his father, who was on duty as a security guard at the school on Saturday and was found to have a fever, vomiting and diarrhoea at 10.45am yesterday.
The bodies of the two victims were sent to the Selayang Hospital Forensic Unit for further action, and the cases have been classified as sudden death.
Ariffin said the food in both cases was identified as fried bee hoon and eggs.
— Bernama
