Six members of a family from Neamț, including three children, were taken to hospital after eating mushrooms picked from the forest

Six members of a family from the village of Oșlobeni, Neamț County, including three children aged 4, 7, and 9, were taken to hospital after being poisoned by mushrooms picked from a nearby forest. The incident was reported by the Neamț County Ambulance Service.

The parents told doctors that they had used the mushrooms to prepare food at home. A few hours after eating them, all six people, aged between 4 and 70, felt ill and called 112.

The patients were picked up by ambulances staffed by medical assistants and transported to the Emergency Reception Unit of the Piatra-Neamț County Emergency Hospital. They all remained hospitalized for specialized medical care.

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