34 students fall ill after eating noon meals in Sundargarh, Rayagada

ROURKELA/BERHAMPUR : About 34 students from two schools in Sundargarh and Rayagada districts were taken ill after allegedly consuming mid day meal served in their institutions on Tuesday.

Thirty students of Udusu Primary school in Sundargarh’s Bisra block who fell ill were admitted to the Bisra Community Health Centre (CHC). While four with symptoms of food poisoning were kept under observation, others were discharged after treatment. Bisra block education officer (BEO) Supravat Behera said the situation was under control.

Behera said the MDM is supplied to all the schools of the district by one organisation but students of Udusu school only fell sick. Samples of food and water have been collected and sent for test, he informed.