He was served adulterated vodka on vacation and became blind for life

During the holidays Hannah Powell, a 23 year old Briton, went out to have fun with her two friends and decided to go to a bar. in Zante, Greece.

Everything is normal, up to the next day that vomiting wakes her up and that she opens her eyes, there is only darkness.

At first she was confused and thought it was a joke when she asked her friends to open the curtains and they responded with dismay that they were open, when he got up and turned on the light, he could see nothing and panicked.

I knew something was wrong, but she did not imagine that she would remain permanently blind. She felt exhausted. It was in August 2016.

This was not a common hangover. Powell had swallowed a vodka but heor that he did not know, it was that they had adulterated their drink with methanol.

Methanol is obtained by distilling the wood at low temperature or by the reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, is employed denaturalize ethyl alcohol and as antifreeze, solvent and fuel, For what It's pretty poisonous.

This substance This affected her kidneys in such a way that they stopped working and she became blind.

Hannah, a native of Middlesbrough, in northeastern England, was transferred to a hospital on the island before being transferred to a larger hospital in mainland Greece.

She was so confused that in her delirium she thought she had been kidnapped..

"I did not know why I could not see, I thought I had something around my eyes or in my head, I remember answering the phone at something on the phone," he told the website. BBC World.

"He (the paramedic) told me not to worry, that I was going to the hospital but that the line was cut off, I remember having hidden the phone under my armpit because I thought they were going to take it out. "

At the hospital, medical tests confirmed that Powell I was suffering from methanol intoxication. At the bar, he was served vodka mixed with this toxic substance.

Her friends they had drunk like her suffered from stomach cramps and vomiting, but no long-term effects.

"Apparently, the mafias prepare it in the woods and sell it at low prices at bars they fill their bottles with that, "said Powell.

"So if you are a customer, you think you buy a vodka Smirnoff legitimate, but it's not like that. They put it in Smirnoff bottles, real bottlesThat's why you have no reason to think that it's not genuine, "he adds.

"It makes the bars last longer, they should not serve you normally, they can give you a lot less because it is much stronger, but it is very dangerous."

He spent 18 months on dialysis until his mother could donate a kidney.
Over time, he stopped seeing everything completely black and began to see blurry images.

Now, he hopes to have a guide dog to be more independent.
Nearly three years have pbaded since these holidays, she may have died and she is grateful that this is not the case, however, so far. Nobody was responsible for what happened.