The Ministry of Health, through the General Directorate of Public Health, is investigating a possible food poisoning in a restaurant in Arrecife that affects eighteen people. The Epidemiological Surveillance Unit of the General Directorate of Public Health of the SCS was informed, through the Inspection of the Lanzarote area and the declaration of several doctors from the Valterra Health Center of several cases of gastroenteritis, some of which would have occurred in the context of the celebration of a birthday the previous weekend.
Once the activation of the tracking team of the Surveillance Unit is launched, it is found that it is a possible foodborne infection linked to a catering establishment, which affects up to this moment 18 people who present a picture of fever, vomiting and watery diarrhea that has sometimes led to going to the Emergency Service, although there are no admissions to date. Clinical samples have been collected for culture.
The affected people are still being interviewed, as well as people exposed to multiple foods from that establishment who have not developed symptoms.
Likewise, Public Health inspectors have visited the catering establishment to carry out the corresponding inspection and collect suspicious food for further analysis.
