Atyrau post office employees taken to hospital with mysterious poisoning

By Murat Sultangaliev

According to Atyrau Oblast Emergency Situations Department press service on January 28, at 15:43 they received a phone call from the first medical aid station about poisoning of 5 employees at one of the Kazpost office branches.  

We called the dispatcher of the first medical aid station and found out that the first aid crew  could not determine the reason of poisoning. Post office employees complained about sudden attack of asthma, dizziness and skin itch.

They all were delivered to the regional hospital with the diagnosis “Poisoning of unknown etiology”. According to the nurse of reception ward of the regional hospital, the patients received medical help and when symptoms of poisoning disappeared they were sent home at 16:50.