Women drank pina coladas at luxury resort before being hospitalised
A man whose daughter and granddaughter were hospitalised while staying at a luxury Fiji resort says the pair were drinking pina coladas by the pool before they fell ill.
The two women were among seven guests at the Warwick Fiji to be hospitalised in what is a suspected case of alcohol poisoning and comes a month after the Laos methanol poisoning tragedy where two Australian women died.
On Monday David Sandoe provided an update about his daughter and 19-year-old granddaughter's health, saying they had improved and were now allowed to fly.
“When you receive a phone call at, well it was 11 o’clock the other night, and your daughter says her daughter and herself have been poisoned and they were in hospital, it’s quite something else,” he told Sky News.
Immediately thinking of the two Melbourne women to die in Thai hospitals last month, he said there were shivers down his spine. He said his daughter had a seizure after drinking a pina colada and was left feeling "very uncomfortable".
"It is is a horrific experience... it was very much a big worry for us."