Health Ministry says COVID-19 patient died of sudden heart attack due to drug overdose

Cambodia’s Ministry of Health Thursday evening confirmed that a COVID-19 patient passed away Thursday  morning, not due to the pandemic but to a sudden heart attack caused by illicit drug overdose. “This patient was positive for COVID-19, but he died of drug overdose,” explained Ms Youk Sambath, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Health.

“He did not have any symptoms related to COVID-19, which means that he did not have shortness of breath, suffocation, fever and lack of oxygen.” An autopsy showed that he had amphetamines, underlined the secretary of state.

Blogs and websites were ripe with speculations on the death of the Chinese national with various guesses on his cause of the death ranging from 1^st death from COVID-19 to just heart attack. The late response from the Ministry of Health did not help matters as the speculations grew to a frenzy and many did not believe the Ministry’s official statement and findings.

read more https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50820963/health-ministry-says-covid-19-patient-died-of-sudden-heart-attack-due-to-drug-overdose/