Doctors at Poland’s leading children’s hospital say they will perform a liver transplant on a 6-year-old Afghan boy who ate poisonous mushrooms with his family
Warsaw, Poland – Doctors at Poland’s top children’s hospital plan to perform a liver transplant on a 6-year-old Afghan boy who was eating highly poisonous mushrooms with his family, but said his 5-year-old brother is on Tuesday in a coma and almost dead.
The boys and their older sister, recently evacuated from Afghanistan, were hospitalized last week. The family picked and ate highly poisonous deadly mushrooms in the forest near the refugee center where they were in Podkowa Lesna, near Warsaw.
Doctors at the Children’s Health Center Institute said the older brother will undergo a transplant Tuesday. He remains in a life-threatening condition. The little brother is undergoing tests to see if he is brain dead. Her 17-year-old sister is in stable condition in the hospital, as are other family members, hospitalized elsewhere.
Poland evacuated the family at the request of Britain after the Taliban took Afghanistan. The father had worked for the British in Afghanistan.
In a separate incident at a different center near Warsaw, four Afghan men were hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms, according to the state office for foreigners. One of them has improved and has left the hospital.
Mushrooms with deadly lids, among the most poisonous in the world, closely resemble the popular edible umbrella mushrooms in Poland.
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