Saudi Alcohol Issues
Here's a strange little piece from Saudi Gazette/Okaz…
It seems that in a country with no legal access to alcoholic beverages, i.e., ethanol, there's a serious health risk that comes from drinking other forms of alcohol, usually methanol. This can be in the form of after shave lotions and perfumes, anti-freeze, or from badly made sadeeqi, home-distilled alcohol.
The health risks are so great that, according to the article, the Saudi Ministry of Health is advising health centers to make sure they have sufficient antidote quantities on hand. The antidote for methanol poisoning? Ethanol, the alcohol specifically forbidden.
Hospitals urged to stock ethanol
Abdullah Al-Maqati
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009061640989
DHULUM – The Ministry of Health has advised public and private health centers to ensure they have a sufficient stock of ethanol antidote for cases of poisoning at hospital emergency departments. A circular emitted by the ministry's general management for Preventive Health called for a number of measures to be put into effect in suspected cases of methanol poisoning. During the period between the middle of the year 2002 and mid-2006 over 17 deaths and 37 registered cases of illness resulted from ingesting methanol found in perfumes and colognes. – Okaz/SG
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