PEKAN: The deaths of a Form Five student and a two-year-old girl due to food poisoning on Monday are still being investigated by the Health Ministry (MoH).
Deputy Health Minister Datuk Lukanisman Awang Sauni said the matter is under investigation by MoH, and its headquarters will issue a statement on the matter later.
"The case will be addressed by the Public Health Division, and the headquarters will release a statement. For now, it remains under investigation," he said at a press conference following a working visit to the District Health Office in Pekan, Pahang, today.
Also present was Pahang Health Director Datuk Dr Rusdi Abd Rahman.
Earlier, police confirmed receiving two reports of deaths involving a 17-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl, suspected to be from food poisoning related to a religious school in Gombak.
Gombak police chief Assistant Commissioner Noor Ariffin Mohamad Nasir said that the teenager had eaten food brought home by his mother after attending a religious programme at the school last Saturday
He said that after consuming the food, the victim and his parents experienced diarrhoea, and at 1.30pm yesterday, the victim lost consciousness.
The second victim, who ate the food brought by her father, who worked as a security guard at the school on Saturday, developed a fever, vomiting, and diarrhoea around 10.45am yesterday (June 10 ).
The bodies of the two victims were sent to the Selayang Hospital Forensic Unit for further examination, and the case has been classified as sudden death.
According to Noor Ariffin, the food involved in both cases was identified as fried bee hoon and eggs. – BERNAMA