38 Children Hospitalised In Mumbai After Consuming This!

38 Children Hospitalised

Minimum 38 children were hospitalised due to food poisoning after consuming a mid-day meal in a private school near Maharashtra's Thane, officials told. Children, who were rushed to hospital after falling ill, are now in stable condition.

The children,from 8 and 11 years of age, were admitted to the civic hospital in Kalwa town after they informed about giddiness, nausea, headache and pain in the abdomen after lunch, according to medical officials at the hospital. 

This incident took place at Kalwa Sahyadri School on Tuesday, said officials. Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) Additional Commissioner Sandeep Malvi told PTI that all the children who were brought to the hospital are now out of danger and are responding to the treatment.

He confirmed that the children had eaten a mid-day meal at the private school. Another medical official said the students were served rice and moth bean (matki) curry as the meal. "Samples of food served to students have been collected by FDA officials. It was immediately not known if matki was stale," officials said.

Initially, five children showed signs of sickness after eating the mid-day meal but the numbers increased gradually. Ambulances were called by the school administration and the children were taken to the hospital. The parents of all the children were informed and reached the hospital. The food samples from the time of the incident were collected from the school, and investigation is on, to determine the cause of food poisoning in children.

Former corporator Milind Patil claimed that this is not the first time that the mid-day meal at the school has been the cause of concern. Patil told  that there have been complaints regarding the hygiene of food in the past, including reports of insects in the mid-day meal. He also said that the school principal doesn't check the quality of the food before it served to the students.