Two teenagers, aged thirteen (13) and fifteen (15), nearly lost their lives after eating ‘Sallah’ food suspected to have been poisoned over the weekend.
The children whose names were not immediately known at the time of filing this report live with their parents at Lomnava, a suburb of Nii Okaiman District in the Greater Accra region.
According to the mother of the boys, who narrated the incident to Today, her sons received rice and stew with cow meat from their neighbour.
She continued that the suspected poisonous food was wrapped in a black polythene bag, noting that as soon as her sons finished eating the food, they suddenly started vomiting, holding their stomach and complaining of stomach ache.
She said when she realised the seriousness of the problem she quickly took them to a nearby clinic in the area.
And after the diagnoses, she said the doctor confirmed that the food was poisoned.
The friend of the boys who brought the food, Baaba Mahama, denied any knowledge of food poison.
He told this reporter that “the two boys were his friends “whom I promised to give “Sallah food” my mother will be preparing.
“So as soon as my mother finished cooking the food in the morning I put some in black polythene bag and kept it for them.”
..However, I couldn’t give it to them in the morning because I didn’t see them. It was only in the evening that I got to see them and gave them the food. I don’t know why they are sick because all my family ate this food, yet no one fell sick. Maybe the black polythene bag caused it.”
Meanwhile, the two boys, according to their mother, were responding to treatment and were in stable condition.
“The doctor said they are healthy because we brought them on time, otherwise they could have died,” the mother told Today.
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