The brain and kidney of a Newcastle nurse, Jamie Johnston, was damaged after she drank a native Bali cocktail laced with methanol during her holiday trip to the Indonesian island.
Jamie Johnston, 25, could no longer talk and move properly after drinking arak at the Happy Cafe restaurant in Lombok on Sept. 20, her mother said Tuesday, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. She and her mother were returning home from Bali when the victim suffered pain and became unconscious.
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Johnston was initially taken to a Bali hospital and then flown to Darwin for treatment lasting three weeks. She will again be transferred to the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle for further treatment, according to NSW Health Minister, Jillian Skinner.
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Johnston was with her mother when the methanol poisoning occurred. Methanol is used as ingredient in paint and other chemicals.
Johnston's case is not the first for foreign tourists getting poisoned by the Indonesian cocktail drink laced with methanol. In 2009, the same cocktail contaminated with methanol killed 25 people in Bali, mostly foreign tourists.
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