14 hospitalized after funeral drinking session, 3 in critical condition

Doctors at Hanoi's Bach Mai Hospital inspect the scans of a patient with alcohol poisoning. Photo by VnExpress/Mai Thanh

Three people are in critical condition after 14 people were hospitalized in the Mekong Delta’s Kien Giang Province with convulsions after drinking alcohol at a funeral.

Tran Van Sy, deputy director of the Kien Giang general hospital, said the patients were transferred from the An Bien District medical center with signs of methanol poisoning.

Three of them were in critical condition and have been put on ECMO machines that pump and oxygenate a patient's blood outside the body.

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