30 Kids Hospitalised in Telangana Due to Suspected Food Poisoning

Government officials concerned were informed following which the students were hospitalised.

Thirty students of a residential boys school at Asifnagar area were hospitalised. Image used for representational purpose. 

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Thirty students of a residential boys school at Asifnagar area were hospitalised on Monday, 8 July, due to suspected food poisoning, a senior school official said.

Principal of the Telangana Minorities Residential Boys School, TG Murali, said the boys, aged between 10 and 14 years, complained of uneasiness after eating food last night and five of them vomited.

He said government officials concerned were informed, following which a doctor visited the school and advised that the students be hospitalised.

“As a precautionary measure all the students were admitted to the Niloufer hospital this morning. They are under observation and all are safe,”

TG Murali, Principal of Telangana Minorities Residential Boys School

Doctors at the Niloufer Hospital said the students are stable and out of danger.