New Delhi, Nov 26 – More than 400 pupils at a Mumbai school were hospitalised Monday with symptoms of food poisoning after eating a cake during midday meal, Xinhua news agency reports local media as saying.
Students from classes 1 to 8 of Anjuman Nurool Islam Urdu School at the financial capital of India showed symptoms of vomiting, giddiness and stomach ache after eating the cake, The Hindustan Times said Tuesday.
“We rushed the students to nearby hospitals,” the newspaper quoted N.M. Malik, Mumbai school principal, as saying. However, doctors said the pupils were stable and many were discharged on the same day.
“No child was critical. Many were discharged on Monday and most of them should feel better by Tuesday,” said Paramount Hospital director Dr. Utkarsh Amgachekar.
School authorities are lodging a complaint against the organisaton that sold the cake.
The incident came about four months after 23 children in eastern state of Bihar were taken ill after having their midday meal.
–Bernama
