A man in Linköping was the night of Sunday to be hospitalized because of suspected mushroom poisoning. SOS Alarm failed to trace the call.
The man phoned at half two in the morning to the emergency, but had to wait a few hours for an ambulance, according to Aftonbladet.
The reason was that he felt so bad that he did not manage to provide your name and address. Because his cell phone was prepaid was not possible to trace where the man was.
– He had cramps so you just heard him breathing, says Magnus Holmstrom, duty officer at the police in Östergötland.
The man told me in conversation with the emergency that he believed that he had eaten a white fly agaric and poisoned. Since he could not talk more.
– He was so poor that they could neither obtain neither the name and address of this person, says Magnus Holmström.
It can take quite long before the symptoms of a fungal intoxication appears. The man had probably eaten the mushrooms sometime on Saturday.
When SOS just heard him breathe alarmingly bad – uneven and intermittent – contacted the police, but the man’s mobile phone prepaid card was not registered.
First, at 3:30 pm the man could finally convey a return address so that the ambulance could get him.
He cared now in hospital in Linköping. According to Aftonbladet, had the police at 07.30 on Sunday morning no information on his condition.
The police now want to warn of poisonous mushrooms. Magnus Holmstrom also recommend people to register their prepaid mobile phones.
– Otherwise, you can not track people if needed, he said.
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