Pune: 22 children, headmistress rushed to hospital after eating mid-day meal

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A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) team collected samples of the khichdi for testing, while issuing ‘stop work’ orders to the Rajmi Mahila Vividh Karyakari Sanstha Maryadit, which supplies mid-day meals to 9,600 students across 23 schools.

Twenty-two students of the Rhambhau Mhalgi trust-run school in Katraj and its headmistress were admitted to hospital with vomiting and loose motion after eating khichdi served as mid-day meal.

The students, from Class VIII to X, and headmistress Sampada Kirkole were admitted to Bharati Hospital in Katraj. Dr Sanjay Lalwani, medical director at the hospital, said four children were admitted in the paediatric ward, one of whom was in ICU as the child suffered dehydration from severe vomiting. The rest were treated in the out patient department and were stable. They had vomiting and loose motion, and it seems a case of food poisoning, Dr Lalwani said.

 

Kirkole said that the khichdi arrived at the school at 8.45 am. “Around 9 am, I had some of it to ensure it was okay and the food was served around 9.30 am. Soon after, I was told that two children had vomited. I was on the third floor and rushed down, only to find more children taking ill. Even I fell sick. The trustee of the school immediately decided to send the children to Bharati hospital,” she said.

 

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) team collected samples of the khichdi for testing, while issuing ‘stop work’ orders to the Rajmi Mahila Vividh Karyakari Sanstha Maryadit, which supplies mid-day meals to 9,600 students across 23 schools.

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