In the Mogilev region in 2022, 182 people died from alcohol poisoning

March 3, Mogilev. In the Mogilev region in 2022, 182 people died from ALCOHOL poisoning. Irina Rachkovskaya, official representative of the Department of the State Forensic Examination Committee for the Mogilev Region, informed BelTA about this. "Every year in the Mogilev region, state medical forensic experts of the SCSE department for the Mogilev region record cases of fatal poisoning with ethyl and other alcohols. So, last year 182 people died from such poisoning, which is somewhat less than in 2021. Then 214 people died In the case of ethyl alcohol, death occurs due to excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages,

Last year, a 72-year-old man died in Bobruisk. According to the results of a forensic medical chemical examination, it was found that the concentration of ethyl alcohol in his blood was 10.3 ppm. A 65-year-old woman died in the Mogilev region, forensic experts found 8.6 ppm of ethyl alcohol in her blood.

Fatal poisonings have also been recorded this year. So, on January 2, the body of a 62-year-old man was found on the territory of a farm in the Mogilev region. According to the results of a forensic medical examination, he died from acute ethyl alcohol poisoning, which is confirmed by its high concentration in the blood - 5.1 ppm.

In early January, a 46-year-old woman in a coma was taken to a healthcare facility in Mogilev. According to relatives, she suffered from ALCOHOLISM, drank 0.5 liters of washer fluid, after which she began to complain of weakness and abdominal pain. Doctors diagnosed "Acute oral poisoning with an unidentified substance." Twice in a short period of time, the woman experienced clinical death, twice the doctors performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and brought her back to life, however, despite the medical assistance provided, the patient died the next morning. According to the conclusions of the state medical forensic expert, the woman's death was due to methyl alcohol poisoning, which is confirmed by its presence in the blood at a concentration of 1493 μg / ml. The lethal concentration is 900 µg/ml.