Woman dies after consuming ‘poisonous’ mushroom

Our Correspondent
Senapati,  Jun 14: In an apparent case of consuming poisonous mushroom, a woman who is an ASHA worker died while 3 other members of the family were admitted to District Hospital, Senapati after ingesting the mushroom.
The incident happened at Khongdei Ngawar village under Senapati district when 4 members of a family ate the mushroom plucked from the forest last Thursday.
Esther (40yrs)  w/o Wantson Khullak of Khongdei Ngawar died on Sunday morning after she complained of abdominal pain, diarrhoea and vomiting.
The 4 members of the family developed the symptoms on Saturday morning after eating the mushroom on Thursday evening.
Two daughters of the family who have not eaten the mushroom did not develop any symptom.
The relatives went to get medicines from PHC Oinam since the PHC allotted for Khongdei areas has no doctors at present.
Esther passed away before the medicines could reach on Sunday.
The relatives then admitted the other members of the family, Wantson Khullak (45 yrs) with 2 of his children, Catherine (14 yrs) and Gladson (10)  to the District Hospital, Senapati.
The doctors at District Hospital, Senapati termed it a case of  mushroom poisoning after studying the symptoms of the patients.
Wantson resented that if the PHC was functional in their area, his wife might not have to face such an unfortunate end.
Earlier, the Poumai Naga Frontal Organizations during their last visit found that the PHC Khongdei was not functional with no medical machinery and no doctor and the construction of the building and the barrack type quarter have not been completed.
The work order of the PHC was issued in 2011 but the construction work has not been completed till date.