(CNA photo) Eight adults and 14 children were hospitalized on Thursday after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning at a Young Men s Christian Association (YMCA) swimming pool in Tainan, southern Taiwan. The city s Fire Bureau sent officers and ambulances to the pool at about 5 p.m., after receiving reports that many patrons were feeling unwell, light headed or had vomited. A carbon monoxide detector showed that the level of the toxic gas in the basement heated swimming pool was 499 parts per million (ppm), far higher than average indoor levels of 0.5 to 5 ppm.
(Carbon monoxide detector shows that level of gas was 499 ppm. Tainan City Government s Fire Bureau photo)
10 released from hospital after carbon monoxide poisoning at Tainan pool
01/08/2021 04:16 PM
CNA photo Jan. 7, 2021
Tainan, Jan. 8 (CNA) Ten of the 24 people who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning at a Young Men s Christian Association (YMCA) swimming pool in Tainan, southern Taiwan on Thursday have been released from the hospital, the city s health department said on Friday.
Tainan emergency services responded to reports at around 5 p.m. Thursday that multiple patrons at the pool on Gongyuan Rd. in the city s North District were feeling unwell, light headed or had vomited.
Carbon monoxide measurements taken at the scene showed that the level of the toxic gas in the basement heated swimming pool was 499 parts per million (ppm), far higher than the average indoor levels of 0.5 to 5 ppm.
Ten of the 24 people who experienced carbon monoxide poisoning at a Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) swimming pool in Tainan on Thursday have been released from treatment, the Tainan Department of Health said yesterday.
Emergency services responded to reports at about 5pm on Thursday that more than one person at the YMCA pool on Gongyuan Road in the city’s North District (北) was feeling unwell, light-headed or had vomited.
Readings taken in the basement pool area showed a carbon monoxide level of 499 parts per million (ppm), far higher than the average indoor level of 0.5ppm to 5ppm.
Twelve children and eight
22 hospitalized from carbon monoxide poisoning at Tainan swimming pool
01/07/2021 09:56 PM
Firefighters helping patrons at the YMCA. CNA photo Jan. 7, 2021
Taipei, Jan. 7 (CNA) Eight adults and 14 children were hospitalized on Thursday after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning at a Young Men s Christian Association (YMCA) swimming pool in Tainan, southern Taiwan.
The city s Fire Bureau sent officers and ambulances to the pool at about 5 p.m., after receiving reports that many patrons were feeling unwell, light headed or had vomited.
A carbon monoxide detector showed that the level of the toxic gas in the basement heated swimming pool was 499 parts per million (ppm), far higher than average indoor levels of 0.5 to 5 ppm.