40 students fall ill after having mid-day meal

40 students fall ill after having mid-day meal

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Feb 9, 2012: Fourty students of St. Joseph’s Higher Primary School in Kankanady had to be admitted to Fr. Muller Hospital when they became sick after having lunch on Feb 9 Thursday. Sources say that many more students are being admitted.

 

The school has employed a lady cook from Jeppu, who cooks the daily meals. Of the 110 students who had taken lunch, 40 of them fell ill and had to be hospitalized.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

School failed to take kids to hospital, allege parents
A large group of parents gathered in front of the school gates and alleged that the school teachers and the school authorities failed to take the kids to hospital immediately although it was quite clear that they were exhibiting signs of food poisoning.

Sr. Lilly, the vice president of the Bethany Education Foundation Society, said that the food was brought to school in two separate vessels and that food from only one of these vessels was served to 110 students from Std. IV, V, and VII. The food in the other vessel was spoilt, she said.

It was the flower vendors who saw the kids vomiting and rushed them to hospital.

It is reported that Ashpak, one of the students, is suffering from severe stomach ache.