A six-year-old Afghan boy evacuated from Kabul to Poland has died after eating poisonous wild mushrooms at the migrant centre his family were staying at near Warsaw, his doctors confirmed on Friday.
The boy suffered damage to his brain after undergoing a liver transplant to counteract the effects of the death cap mushrooms. His five-year-old brother, who also ate the mushrooms, died in the same hospital.
The boys’ family is thought to have picked them from the forest surrounding the centre they were quarantining in following their flight from Afghanistan.
He was pronounced dead at Poland’s main children’s hospital in Warsaw on Friday, the day after his five-year-old brother, who had also eaten the mushrooms, died.
The brothers were taken to Warsaw Children’s Memorial Health Centre in a critical condition with acute liver failure on 26 August, two days after they ate the mushrooms whilst staying in the migrant centre, which is located in a forest outside Warsaw.
The older brother had a liver transplant on Tuesday to try to save his life and although the operation was considered successful his condition deteriorated further in the last 48 hours.
His five-year-old brother had suffered irreversible brain damage and was unable to have a transplant.
