A vacation at a hotel on the Red Sea turned into a tragedy for a family that came on vacation from Italy. A six-year-old boy, who was on vacation with his father and pregnant mother, tragically died after severe food poisoning in Sharm el-Sheikh, a favorite Egyptian resort for Italians. His father is currently in intensive care.
A 46-year-old tourist and his pregnant wife were vacationing with their six-year-old son at the Sharm el-Sheikh beach resort in Egypt. During the vacation, the child caught a stomach infection, which caused her constant nausea, the Italian newspaper La Stampa reported.
The publication published the comment of the tourist’s brother, according to which it was found that the boy and his father were suffering from the symptoms of the disease, while the mother had milder symptoms. “They were constantly vomiting. They left on June 26 and were to stay in Egypt for two weeks. They planned this vacation for several months,” he said.
In addition, the interlocutor reported that the brother-in-law initially thought that the cause of the illness was water from the pool, which he accidentally swallowed. As the condition worsened, the family consulted a doctor. They were prescribed pills to treat food poisoning, and the tourists “returned to the room, but they continued to vomit.”
By the morning of last Saturday, the symptoms had not disappeared, so the victims called an ambulance. However, it was too late.
For an hour, medics performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the baby, but their actions were unsuccessful. According to the interlocutor, the father of the dead boy was hospitalized with “symptoms of the beginning of kidney failure” and is currently in intensive care. “We do not have certain information about the condition of my brother-in-law. They took out insurance and asked to charter a private flight, but they need medical reports from the hospital, which are not delivered to them,” he added.
Officials have already announced the boy’s autopsy, but it will take months to understand the cause of his death, the newspaper said. “We don’t see a way out of this nightmare, we want to go through our pain together at home in Italy, but we don’t know how to do it. My brother-in-law has kidney and heart problems, he can’t stand up… We want to bring everyone home, someone, help us,” the Italian begged.
In recent weeks, Egypt’s famous beach resorts have become the scene of several tragedies. Yes, last week a tourist died, losing an arm and a leg as a result of a terrible shark attack. A 68-year-old Austrian woman died in an ambulance from “shock” after the horror that happened to her on the Red Sea, details here.
The heart-wrenching video shows her bleeding and desperately trying to swim back to shore after being attacked by a shark and biting off a woman’s arm and leg. The video was shot by foreign tourists who complained about the lack of rescuers. A large crowd watched the drama, but no one dared to enter the water.
We will remind you that at the end of October 2021, mass poisoning was recorded at the AMC Royal Hotel in Hurghada: 40 Russian tourists, most of whom were children, were poisoned and hospitalized. The affected tourists had nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, and high fever. The poisoned tourists were taken to hospitals.
At the same time, the most high-profile incident involving the poisoning of tourists in Hurghada was the death of a married couple in August 2018, which forced British tour operator Thomas Cook to evacuate more than 300 of its tourists from the five-star Steigenberger Aqua Magic hotel in Hurghada. The death of these two British tourists in this hotel was extremely strange, and its reasons have not yet been named: on August 21, Susan Cooper (63 years old) and her husband, 69-year-old Jonah Cooper, died in their room. Kelly Ormerod’s daughter, who was with them on the trip, became ill but survived. The tourist is still trying to find out what caused the death of her parents – but the case has not been solved.
There was another victim of predators – a foreign tourist who came to the hotel with a permit. Read details in the article “Tourists are scared, but they swim: 4 reasons for shark attacks in Hurghada are named.”