Panaji: 23 School Students Suffer Food Poisoning, Hospitalised


Panaji, Jun 15 (PTI) As many as 23 Murgao High School students in Vasco town were admitted to a hospital today when they complained of stomachache and vomiting after consuming food served under the mid-day meal scheme.

Suspecting it to be a case of food poisoning, officials of the Goa Education Department said that all the students have been shifted to a Primary Health Centre at Chicalim, 40 kms away from here.

The students had been served food under the mid-day meal scheme during the recess today, they said adding that condition of all the students is stable.

"A team of officials has been dispatched to Vasco to take stock of the situation," Anil Powar, Assistant Director, Education department, said.

Powar said that education minister Atanasio Monserratte has directed to initiate an inquiry into the incident.

  

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