Dr. Mahmoud Lotfy, Professor of Toxicology and Forensic Medicine and Director of the Poison Center at Ain Shams University Hospitals, revealed that the center recently received 7 cases of poisoning of workers with carbon monoxide gas.
The director of the Poison Center at Ain Shams University Hospitals said, in special statements for the seventh day, that the 7 cases of workers who were poisoned with carbon monoxide gas as a result of heating with fire on wood or charcoal, which caused the release of carbon monoxide gas, which has no odor or color and causes Poisoning.
The director of the Poison Center at Ain Shams University Hospitals pointed out that among the 7 cases of deaths and the other in intensive care, and 5 medium cases of their injuries, they are given all first aid, warning of the danger of this gas.
The director of the Poison Center at Ain Shams University Hospitals revealed that during 2019, the center received about 350 cases of poisoning due to this gas, and the average of cases received annually may exceed 450 cases.
And carbon monoxide gas is a toxic gas that is colorless, tasteless and odorless and not irritating to the mucous membranes and therefore when there is no person feels it, therefore it is called a silent killer, unlike natural gas that is added to it smell permeable by pressure reducing stations and adding odor and thus easy to detect when a leak occurs Therefore it is very safe in case of complete combustion.
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