over 400 children were treated forfood poisoning on Monday after they consumed cakes provided under the mid-day meal scheme in a suburban school. Two of them are in Dhanvantari Hospital's intensive care unit.
The incident at Anjuman Noor-ul-Islam school. Sakinaka. Andheri(East). will put Maharashtra on the topin termsofillness cases recorded due to the mid-day meal. Maharashtra has had 557 cases over the last 10 years. followed by Delhi which has 525. This is the first time such a large number of children has been reported ill from a single school since 2003.
Following a complaint registered by the school, the Sakinaka police arrested four people including Anita Thorat, owner of the agency Parivartan Mahila Mandal that supplied the mid-day meal to the school and the bakery owner who made the cakes. According to the school staff, the cake was distributed at 10am and students started complaining of giddiness and stomach ache within half an hour. Some started vomiting. By 11.15am, children were rushed to four hospitals- Paramount, Apex, Dhavantari and Sant Muktabai Hospital. Two students weresent to civic-run Rajawadi Hospital at Ghatkopar.
The incident at Anjuman Noor-ul-Islam school. Sakinaka. Andheri(East). will put Maharashtra on the topin termsofillness cases recorded due to the mid-day meal. Maharashtra has had 557 cases over the last 10 years. followed by Delhi which has 525. This is the first time such a large number of children has been reported ill from a single school since 2003.
Following a complaint registered by the school, the Sakinaka police arrested four people including Anita Thorat, owner of the agency Parivartan Mahila Mandal that supplied the mid-day meal to the school and the bakery owner who made the cakes. According to the school staff, the cake was distributed at 10am and students started complaining of giddiness and stomach ache within half an hour. Some started vomiting. By 11.15am, children were rushed to four hospitals- Paramount, Apex, Dhavantari and Sant Muktabai Hospital. Two students weresent to civic-run Rajawadi Hospital at Ghatkopar.
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