INDIA: Over 60 children fall ill after eating midday meal in UP school - (Keralanext.com)
September 28, 2007 – 6:08 pmMoradabad (Uttar Pradesh) — At least 60 children were, according to this story, taken ill after eating a mid-day meal served at a school in Behalolpur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad District.
The children, who are undergoing treatment at the district hospital, had started vomiting after having the meal.
D K Gupta, Chief Medical Superintendent, Moradabad District Hospital, was quoted as saying, “Around 61 children have been brought here on Thursday out of which 37 have been given saline water. All the children are better now.”
Sushila, a student, was quoted as saying, “I had puri and potato curry at school. When I reached home after school I was feeling dizzy and then I started vomiting.”
Officials were cited as saying that an enquiry is being carried out into the incident and action will be taken against those involved in preparing and serving the meal.
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