New Delhi: In a worrying incident that has come to light in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, around 80 students from a district council school took ill after eating biscuits from a nutritional meal programme. They have been admitted to hospital.
After eating the biscuits, the children started experiencing nausea and vomited at the Keket Jalgaon village school around 8.30 am on Saturday, local officials said.
When the news spread, the village head and school administration officials rushed to the place and transported the students to a nearby hospital. According to a India Today report, Dr Babasaheb Ghughe, a medical officer at the hospital, said that 257 students showed food poisoning symptoms after eating the biscuits. Of these, 153 were brought to the hospital and some were treated and sent home, he added.
He pointed out that seven students who showed severe symptoms were shifted to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Civil Hospital. The total strength of the school is 296 students. A probe to ascertain the cause behind the food poisoning has been initiated.
Student dies after consuming mess meal in UP’s Deoria
In a separate food poisoning case, on August 8, Shivam Yadav, 15, a Class 8 student who was among the 90 children who fell sick after having hostel dinner, died at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in Uttar Pradesh after he was shifted from the Maharishi Devraha Baba Medical College.
The dinner was served at the hostel of the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Ashram Paddhati School in Bariyarpur, Deoria, on Sunday evening. A case has been registered by the social welfare officer of Deoria against the company supplying food in the school and mess operations have been suspended.
More than 70 students complained of stomach ache and vomiting after consuming the puri-chole served by the school mess. Emergency medicine was given to them by the school authorities. On Monday morning, more students fell ill and were hospitalised at the Deoria medical college.
