Mohammed Abdul Malik - Al Jazeera Net
In a recent precedent during the years of war in Yemen, a recent occurrence in the city of Aden (south of Yemen) recorded unprecedented deaths in people who used fake alcohol they resorted to because of the cost of what is known as municipal wine made in private factories.
The head of the criminal investigation at the Republic Hospital in Aden Nabil Fadl Alwan said that more than 16 people were mediated in the middle of last month to the hospital, all of whom took the chemical "Asperit" known as "Saberto".
Alwan told Al Jazeera Net that the resort to the "Spirto" was the result of their inability to buy the so-called municipal wine, made locally in secret factories in the city, and is prepared from grapes and sugar, and sometimes from some of the remnants of vegetables and fruits, and then be fermented and then fermented and placed in sealed cans Certain periods.
According to Alwan, four people were killed immediately, six were blinded, four were moderately injured in the nervous system, and two recovered.
| Son of Zarq: the number of victims Forty people (Al Jazeera) |
Greater victims
In contrast, Yemeni journalist Fathi bin Lazarq, the editor of the local newspaper Aden al-Ghad, said the figures were more than those announced, and that the number of victims exceeded forty people, including citizens from outside Aden.
The son of Zarq that there is one party selling this type of alcohol and adulterated, bought by the users of the same batch, and some of them returned to his home and died and buried by his family in a normal way without revealing the reasons.
Sources also revealed to the island Net that the initial suspicions indicate that one of the owners of pharmacies in Aden has a special laboratory, and imports such materials and discharged to health facilities for therapeutic purposes.
Doctors told Al Jazeera Net about two types of aspirin: the first is methanol, which is the most serious. When a person is infected, it causes direct spinal cord injury and leads to loss of sight.
The second type is "ethanol", which is the lightest, where it is usually diluted and abused by some who can not buy municipal wine, and it is difficult to distinguish between the two.
One of the achievements of the so-called #local council, that around # Eden to a quagmire of chaos and tampering, the last of which is to restore the date of the production of liquor, but in a corrupt way which is already corrupt, and news of the death of dozens of alcohol abusers, including a security figure linked to the militia security belt! |
According to Yemeni doctor Abdelkader Al-Junaid, "Methanol" if the man made a mistake in the consumption, it turns into the body with the same enzyme "Dehydrogenase" alcohol to "formaldehyde" and then to the "Format" salts.
These components are highly toxic and lethal to the nerve cells of the brain, especially the optic nerve, and cause acidity of the blood, and symptoms of rapid acceleration of breathing as an attempt to equate acidity to remove carbon dioxide.
Causes and treatments
According to medical and security sources in the criminal investigation in Aden, what happened was a precedent during the war years, saying that everything is available in the city of municipal wine made in special laboratories to the pills.
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The phenomenon of the municipal wine industry in the city of Aden is a very old phenomenon, which dates back decades, and is often made in slum factories.
He added that some of them were raided by security forces recently in Aden, but there are those who could not buy those wines resorted to the use of "Aspart".
The reasons for people taking drugs, as well as the municipal liquor or the aspirin, in Aden, attributed to Ben Zalk the bad economic situation, the increase in unemployment rates, and the frustration of many people because of war and difficult living conditions.
The liquidation of the director of anti-drugs, Fadel Salih, today in # Aden preceded the liquidation and quantification of dozens of imams and rational voices, in conjunction with the growing phenomenon of abuse of contraband, including spoiled liquor and aspirin, which claimed the lives of a number of young people of the city. |
And the negative symptoms of substance abuse, says Dr. Yemeni Abdul Qadir Al-Junaid that the frequent use of alcohol causes inflammation, liver failure, myocardial infarction, brain and brain dementia.
The effect of alcohol on people varies from one person to another according to the different genetic makeup, the presence or absence or deficiency of enzymes within their bodies to deal with alcohol and break it through successive steps until reaching the final material that is eliminated through secretions of the body, according to Junaid.