VEDI. – Eighteen people got poisoned from boiled meat in Shaghap village of Ararat region. They were taken to Vedi hospital on Thursday, PR department of the Ministry of Healthcare informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“Initial expertise shows that possible reason of poisoning was self-made boiled meat, which was not kept in appropriate temperature. Currently condition of all patients is satisfactory. Ministry of Healthcare controls their health condition,” head of ministry PR Lilit Babakhanyan told and recommended to use only fresh food or keep it in refrigerator.

Those eighteen people diagnosed with food poisoning are from the same village. The youngest person is 23 and the oldest is 80-year-old.