Contaminated shawarma meals in Jordan caused a catastrophe, where a child died and 700 people were injured by food poisoning after eating shawarma meals from a restaurant in the Al-Baqa’a area, it was found that they were contaminated with bacteria, according to the Jordanian Ministry of Health announced today.
The ministry announced in a statement, "The death of a 5-year-old child from mass poisoning," after he was in intensive care in hospital and did not respond to treatment.
About 100 people were admitted to hospitals on Tuesday morning after poisoning, but the Ministry of Health confirmed that the number of people affected by poisoning has risen to 700 this morning.
The ministry said that "laboratory tests carried out by specialized investigation teams by the Food and Drug General Authority showed the presence of bacterial contamination in meat and chicken, the virus" Intercox Ficals ", and the bacterium" Campylobacter ").
"Most of the injuries are between good and medium, and all of them have a good health status," state-run Al-Mamlaka TV quoted the Assistant Secretary-General for Primary Health Care at the Ministry of Health, Adnan Ishaq, as saying.
He pointed out that "a large number of the injured were discharged from the hospital, and that the rest will be discharged today, Wednesday."
"The failure to cool the poultry corrupts the foodstuff and causes poisoning," said Ishaq.
In a statement, Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz ordered "taking legal measures against violators in the event of any failure or violation of public health and safety conditions."
The Public Prosecutor of Ain al-Basha in the Al-Baqa area, northwest of Amman, arrested three people pending the case: the restaurant owner, the lounge manager, and the worker responsible for providing meals after submitting eight complaints to the public prosecutor.
The Public Prosecutor directed these charges of "causing harm" and "handling counterfeit materials (mayonnaise), which is used in manufacturing materials that are not suitable for human consumption."
Local news websites reported that the reason for the high demand for eating shawarma meals from the restaurant, whose owner stopped the offer of shawarma meal for only one dinar (about 1.4 dollars).
This incident coincided with Jordan being affected by a rare heat wave during which the temperature in the past two days exceeded 40 degrees Celsius in the capital, Amman.

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