Sydney An Indian woman living in Australia's New South Wales state will sue a grocery store that reportedly sold her toxic mushrooms. According to a local newspaper, Rajvir Kaur, 25, after consuming the mushrooms, reportedly fell ill with persistent vomiting and diarrhoea last ye
Sydney
An Indian woman living in Australia's New South Wales state will sue a grocery store that reportedly sold her toxic mushrooms.
According to a local newspaper, Rajvir Kaur, 25, after consuming the mushrooms, reportedly fell ill with persistent vomiting and diarrhoea last year, 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.
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 the blame stating that an investigation carried out in 2014 found no traces of the toxic fungi and that the mushrooms may have been bought from some other shop.
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.
