Vic: Nursing home denies deaths were food poisoning

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: April 16, 2007 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
04-16-2007
Vic: Nursing home denies deaths were food poisoning

MELBOURNE, April 16 AAP - The head of the organisation running Melbourne nursing home
Broughton Hall, where four people died over the Easter break, has denied there was an
outbreak of food poisoning there.

Benetas chief executive Sharon Callister today said it was not food poisoning but gastroenteritis
that struck the nursing home patients, with four dead, more hospitalised and 21 residents
affected.

"This is not food poisoning. We have not got that verified," Ms Callister told ABC radio.

"It's ...

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