Jan 15, 2014 03:34 PM
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The principal and vice principal are very rude, money making institution. There is also a police case against them.
BANGALORE: Over 90 children from Indiranagar Cambridge School were admitted to three city hospitals with symptoms of food poisoning on Friday afternoon.
One child was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit and two others were kept back at the hospital for observation while the others were discharged later in the evening after treatment.
The students had complained of giddiness and nausea shortly after drinking glasses of Dabur Food's Real Juice, following an event organized by the juice company to promote its drink, according to school authorities.
The school authorities immediately rushed the children to the hospitals. Over 36 children were taken to Manipal Hospital, 35 to Chinmaya Hospital and 20 children to a private nursing home close to the school.
N. Karthick Nagesh, senior consultant, Paediatrics Department at Manipal Hospital, said: "The children were clinically evaluated, resuscitated and treated to ward off any ill-effects of the poison in the food product that they had consumed."
It was chaos at the hospitals with parents of the school pouring in there. As a panic reaction, the school authorities sent groups of children, including those who did not complain of any symptoms, to the hospital. K.N. Ravi, parent of Anusha, a Class III student, said it was his friend and not the school authorities who informed him that there was some problem at the school. "They did not tell me anything, " he said. Savithri, mother of a Class V student, started crying when she could not locate her son. Officials at the school said that their first priority had been in making sure that the children were all right by taking them to hospital.
More than 300 students from classes II to VI took part in the event that was organized by the juice company at 11.30 a.m. At the end of the program, the organizers handed over tetrapacks of the juice to some students and poured it in plastic cups for several others.
Just before the lunch break at 12.15 p.m., some of the students complained of giddiness, said Swarup, student secretary at the school. Shivarama Reddy, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ulsoor subdivision, said the police were planning to take up a suo motu case against the school and the fruit juice company. T
he Jeevanabima Nagar inspector Shiva Murthy, who was at the hospital, told press persons that batches of the fruit juice would be sent to the forensic science laboratory for examination.
Sanjay Sharma, general manager (Sales and Marketing) at Dabur, said the tertapacks had been packed in June-July and had not crossed the expiry date. He said: "Each batch of the product is tested by an independent government laboratory before it is released to the market. The product is manufactured at a facility that adheres to Indian and international norms."
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