Daijiworld Media Network – Madikeri (SP)

Madikeri, Dec 29: Information has come, following a series of food poisoning incidents at schools. This time, over 30 students of Morarji Desai Residential School near the government agricultural farm in Kudige near Kushalnagar, became ill after consuming food at school. The incident happened on Wednesday December 28.

While 15 students were taken away by their parents for treatment, some were provided emergency medical assistances before entrusting them to their parents. Three students were admitted into the government hospital in Kushalnagar for treatment.

When the media persons contacted the students, they complained that the kitchen of the school is not hygienic, and that the cooks do not care to clean the vegetables and other cooking ingredients, even when they find body parts of spiders, wasps etc in the food. They said that chapathis are sometimes made of dough that is several days old. They said that the principal, who is aware of the problems, is not bold enough to take on the cooks, who behave arrogantly. They blamed local political interference in the school affairs, which has been responsible for the current miserable state of affairs.