Mass food poisoning outbreak at YOG venue yesterday?
Mass food poisoning outbreak at YOG venue yesterday?
August 18th, 2010 | Author: Your Correspondent
According to unverified rumors circulating around in cyberspace, a mass food poisoning outbreak occurred at a YOG venue yesterday afflicting more than 30 people who ate the food, including the on site doctor.
The Ministry of Health has reportedly launched an investigation into the case with the food caterer suspended. The incident was first posted on mycarforum yesterday evening by a former Cerano:
yogdiarrhoea
[Source: mycarforum]
His account appeared to be corrobated by some twitter postings:
yogdiarrhoea01
[Source: I hate YOG]
When our correspondent tried to verify the story by calling the Ministry of Health hotline, she was directed to the National Environment Agency which did not confirm or deny the story so far.
Netizens may like to help us call the NEA Hotline below to check out if there were indeed more than thirty cases of food poisoning at a YOG venue yesterday and post its response on our site :
NEA Call Center: 1800-2255 632
The inaugural YOG was besieged by problems and controversies even before it was officially opened last Saturday. A few days earlier, there were reports of volunteers being fed inadequate and substandard food, sparking a massive outcry among Singaporeans.
There were also reports of Singapore students being forced to volunteer for the YOG which were dismissed by the Singapore YOG Committee Chairman Ng Ser Miang as mere “stories flying around.”
Yesterday, a roof canvas at one of the YOG venues, *SCAPE, collapsed under a heavy downpour forcing the basketball match held there to be cancelled. Fortunately, nobody was injured.
The Singapore media has censored all negative news about the YOG and its articles on it are completely divorced from the reality on the ground.
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