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Indian woman to sue Australian grocery giant
Sydney, June 14
An Indian woman living in
Australia's New South Wales state is all set to sue a grocery store
which sold her toxic mushrooms, a media report said on Sunday.
Rajvir
Kaur, 25, after consuming the mushrooms, fell ill with persistent
vomiting and diarrhoea on April 24, 2014, but by the time she was taken
to the hospital, she had multiple organ failure and required an
emergency liver transplant surgery to save her life, reported The Sydney
Morning Herald.
The mushrooms Kaur ate were identified as death
cap mushrooms, a highly poisonous fungus that looks similar to a normal
mushroom but releases deadly toxins into the body if consumed.
The
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has denied responsibility
stating that an investigation carried out in 2014 found no traces of the
toxic fungi and that the mushrooms may have been bought from somewhere
else.
According to Kaur, the mushrooms were bought from the
Woolworths about two weeks before consumption, making it unlikely that
the same batch of mushrooms was present when the investigation took
place.
Currently in Australia on a temporary visa, Kaur has applied for permanent residency.
"I'm
going to need medical care for the rest of my life and I can't get it
there (India). This is the place where I was poisoned and I think I
(should) be able to stay."
Unable to work, Kaur is being supported by the local Sikh community.