Today's Great Disaster in the History | The Extraordinary Wine Case in Shuozhou, Shanxi Province More than 20,000 people died in the earthquake in India

I. Extraordinary false alcohol poisoning case in Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province

January 26, 1998, together with large fake alcohol poisoning case occurred in Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province broke the New Year bring joy and harmony. In the past few days, there were more than 1,000 people poisoned and 27 people were killed, seriously endangering people’s lives and health. 1998 March 8, Wang Qinghua Shanxi Shuozhou adulterated liquor case six officiating sentenced to death, the other nine defendants were sentenced to 5-15 years in prison. All defendants were fined and confiscation of property.

How was the Chuzhou wine poisoning case discovered?

At 3:00 on January 23, Shuozhou Ping Lu district hospital received a critically ill patient, symptoms are vomiting, headache, dilated pupils, difficulty breathing, this patient has not had time to enter the emergency room just died. At that time, the doctor on duty did not expect that a case of phony poisoning that had shocked the nation had taken place, and Chenzhou became the hardest-hit area of ​​this case.

January 26 afternoon, Lu Ping District Hospital has received three patients, the symptom is vomiting, headache, dilated pupils, difficulty breathing, is also too late to rescue this three patients had died too soon in the hospital. At the time, Rong Zhanheng, director of the internal medicine department on duty, felt an anomaly: the deaths of patients with the same symptoms were rare in the past. After inquiring about the deceased's family members in detail, they learned that they all had drunk before the onset of illness. Rong Zhanheng suddenly flashed an idea that death was related to drinking. The hospital immediately arranged consultations with relevant personnel to rule out the possibility of cerebrovascular disease and infectious diseases, and initially identified it as alcoholism. However, due to the limitations of the equipment, they did not know that alcohol contained a lot of methanol.

The New Year is coming soon. The New Year is the peak of drinking. If it is fake wine poisoning, it is a matter of life and death. The medical staff realized the seriousness and urgency of the matter. Although the hospital was unable to determine the cause of death at the time because of fake wine, it must not delay the precious time saving people. Their high sense of responsibility, at 5 pm January 26 were reported to the district government.

The situation is still further expanding. As they reported, three other patients with the same symptoms died because of no time to cure.

The Pinglu District Committee and the District Government immediately convened an emergency meeting and reported to the Zhuozhou Municipal Committee, the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Government, and the relevant provincial and municipal authorities. After the emergency deployment, the departments of industry and commerce, public security, and technical supervision immediately acted. A few hours later, the Bureau of Technical Supervision returned from the provincial capitals Taiyuan and Datong with an appraisal report: the alcohol contained in the deceased was hundreds of times higher than the national standard. At the same time, the Trade and Industry Bureau seized more than 100 bulk wine sales outlets overnight ; the Public Security Bureau seized those involved in counterfeit wines from Wenshui County, Shanxi Province that had been backed by large amounts of methanol. Cadres at all levels have a holiday home on short notice, quickly duty, starting the night and went to the streets to inform rural masses, radio and television broadcast continuous rolling, and finally catch up before January 27 New Year's Eve 11:00, will not be allowed to drink The notification of bulk liquor was conveyed to thousands of households in Shengzhou. At 2 pm, the medical team organized by Shanxi Province also traveled to Taizhou from Taiyuan, 300 kilometers away.

A battle to rescue the poisoned people from the fake wine was thus started.

Second, India has suffered more than 20,000 deaths in the 50- year earthquake

January 26, 2001, magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurred in western Gujarat state of India. This day is the Republic Day of India. Many people keep at home next to the television and are ready to watch the military parade in New Delhi. However, the 50- year-long earthquake has caught the Indian people who are full of joy to celebrate the National Day. The Great Earthquake took away the lives of more than 20,000 people. Over $ 4.5 billion of property was temporarily lost. The economy of Gujarat, one of the most prosperous areas in India, has been regressed for 20 years. Post-disaster resettlement, disease prevention and epidemic prevention, and reconstruction are even more severe tests for the Indian government. After the earthquake hit, the international community has extended assistance to India and rescue workers and supplies have arrived in the affected areas.

India is at the junction of the Eurasian and Indian subcontinental plates and is a country with a high number of earthquakes. Perhaps because of this, people are less prepared to prevent earthquakes, but the weak sense of shock has brought shocking results. Days of disaster are to be avoided, but how to minimize the losses caused by disasters is a matter worthy of careful consideration by human beings.

The information in this article comes from the Internet and was reorganized and edited by China Rescue Equipment Network.