118 down with food poisoning at Malay Dignity Congress

Updated 4 years ago · Published on 6 Oct 2019 5:44PM · 3 Comments

A total of 118 people are down with suspected food poisoning after consuming food provided by the organiser of the Malay Dignity Congress in Shah Alam today. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Seth Akmal, October 6, 2019.

A TOTAL of 118 people who attended the Malay Dignity Congress at the Malawati Stadium in Shah Alam today are down with suspected food poisoning after consuming food provided by the organiser at the event.

Selangor Health director Dr Khalid Ibrahim said the department received a report on the incident at about 11.15am today.

“We received a report that some of the victims had symptoms of diarrhoea and vomiting, following which an emergency team was sent to the location.

“Following examination, 27 of them were classified as semi-critical (yellow tag) and 91 were in stable condition (green tag),” he said in a statement today.

He said the Emergency Department at Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang and Shah Alam Hospital had been placed on alert since 11.50am today to receive the patients.

The Malay Dignity Congress was organised by four public universities – Universiti Malaya (UM), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) – to discuss and find solutions to problems faced by the Malays. – Bernama, October 6, 2019.

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  • These are obviously the side-effects of being inebriated with an excess of artificial 'dignity'.

    Posted 4 years ago by Arul Inthirarajah · Reply

  • The wrong kind of food is bad for health, the wrong kind of thinking is bad for the mind.

    Posted 4 years ago by Leong Hong · Reply

  • Must be due to toxic speeches made by undignified Malay leaders who have yet awakened to the fact they have been walking with walking sticks all their lives despite Allah giving them a good pair of legs.

    Posted 4 years ago by Rupert Lum · Reply