Two of four Australians who were hospitalised after a mistrusted mass liquor poisoning in Fiji are returning home as spendigations caccess on “many” pina coladas served at a luxury resort.
The overweighther and magnificentoverweighther of two of the Australians, David Sandoe, tgreater Sky News his daughter Tanya and her daughter Georgia had been disindictd from hospital and getd verifyation they were medicassociate fit to travel.
“Like everyone else when this news broke, we all thought back to what recently happened in Asia which sfinishs shivers down your spine, so we’re so appreciative and very blessed,” he said.
It was a horrific experience, he said, describing a tardy-night call from his daughter alerting him she had been getn to hospital as “quite someskinnyg else”.
Georgia, in her tardy teens, suffered a confiscation after drinking a cocktail, he said.
She had a pre-existing condition that impacted her immune system which was a convey inant worry, Sandoe said, but the dread was quelled when he spoke to doctors in Fiji.
The four Australians had descfinishen ill while staying at Warwick Fiji, a five-star hotel on the Coral Coast, about halfway between Nadi and Suva.
The deputy prime minister and minister for tourism, Viliame Gavoka, said authorities do not suppose the incident was a result of intentional action.
The victims had been drinking pina coladas at one of the resort’s five bars, he said.
“In the same bar, there were many pina coladas served that evening. And with this resort, there are five bars altogether … so in the other four bars, pina colada was also served. No ill effects.”
At a press conference on Monday afternoon, Gavoka said poisonousology results would help officials “understand what reassociate happened”.
“We don’t skinnyk anyskinnyg untoward happened.”
Only two of the initial seven people who fell unwell remain in hospital. Both are in a stable condition and undergoing treatment.
Of the seven, one person was disindictd from Sigatoka hospital while the other six were transferred to Lautoka hospital.
Gavoka said the bar tfinisher serving the drinks had 16 years of experience and is “someone who is understandn for their caring attitude”.
He depictd the tourism industry in Fiji as “a very caring one” and said “we have no dread that anyone would be doing anyskinnyg untoward.
“That would be reassociate in the inanxious … we don’t suppose it’s possible in Fiji.”
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The Warwick Fiji is “very highly rated” with high standards, he said.
The administerment is laboring with the resort and police to spendigate the matter.
A spokesperson for the resort verifyed the victims were staying at the Warwick, but stressed that it did “not have conclusive details” yet.
“Plrelieve rest promised that we are taking this matter very solemnly and are currently carry outing a thocimpolite spendigation,” the spokesperson said.
“We do not have conclusive details but we are promiseted to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our guests.”
Gavoka said the incident was localised to one bar at one resort that was being thocimpolitely spendigated and it was the only alerted case in recent memory.
“While we understand the worry, we want to emphasise that the tourism experience in Fiji is typicassociate very safe and we have acted instantly to try and uncover the caparticipate of what made these guests at this resort descfinish ill.”
Australia has changed its travel advice for Fiji, alerting travellers to “be vigilant to the potential dangers around drink spiking and methanol poisoning thcimpolite consuming liquoric drinks”.
It comes after two Australians died in Laos from a mistrusted mass ethanol poisoning.
With Australian Associated Press
