Two Afghan children who escaped from the Taliban's tyranny were chased by death in Poland because of a stranger
A five-year-old boy evacuated from Afghanistan has died in a hospital in Poland after eating a poisonous mushroom, while his brother is battling death, doctors said Thursday.
"We have confirmed the death of the child," said Jaroslaw Kirkus of the CZD Children's Hospital in Warsaw.
He added that his six-year-old brother, whose condition has worsened since a liver transplant, has little chance of survival.
"His condition is similar to that of his little brother two days ago," hospital director Marek Migdal told reporters.
He regretted that the hospital was unable to "help the two boys."
The two children arrived in Poland on August 23 with their family and remained in quarantine at a migrant center in the town of Podkova Lisna, near Warsaw.
The boys and their 17-year-old sister were taken to the hospital on August 26 and 27, and the girl was later released.
The Oko Press news website reported that the father of the two children, an accountant, worked in the British army for several years, and the Polish army took over the evacuation of the family at the request of Britain.
Immigration office spokesman Jacob Dodziak said earlier this week that a total of five people had sought medical help because of intestinal problems, but had initially not reported eating the mushrooms.
He denied a press report that the two children ate mushrooms because they did not get enough food, noting that the migrants receive "three meals a day."
Dodziak stressed that "the staff of the centers for foreigners will work, out of this unfortunate incident, to educate the displaced Afghans not to consume products of unknown origin."
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