Ghaziabad (IANS) | In Ghaziabad and Meerut, many people fell ill after consuming buckwheat flour during Navratri. Everyone got dizzy within half an hour after eating buckwheat flour. Then the vomiting started. These people had bought flour from different shops. On Wednesday, the first day of Navratri, people observed a fast. Had eaten buckwheat flour in the evening.
It is believed that this contaminated flour was prepared in only one factory. From where it would have been supplied to various shops. At present, the treatment of all is going on in the hospitals. At the same time, the Food Department is taking samples of Kuttu from these shops and sending them for examination.
The first incident is from Ghaziabad. Where about 100 people fell ill after eating buckwheat flour during Navratri. 80 people are admitted in four different hospitals. More than 20 people are present at their homes.
On Wednesday night around 11 o’clock, the first information about health deterioration after eating buckwheat flour came from Dabana village. Some people from here were brought to the hospital in Modinagar. After this, the patients kept reaching the hospitals for the whole night. Apart from Dabana, people from Saunda, Sherpur, Dalla, Dabana, Ujaida and Nagla villages started reaching the hospital in large numbers. Apart from this, people started falling ill in Harmukhpuri and Jagatpuri colonies of Modinagar town. About 80 people are admitted in three hospitals in Modinagar and one in Muradnagar till Thursday morning. Doctors have given initial treatment to some people and sent them to their homes.
SDM Shubhangi Shukla reached the hospitals at night itself. He called the CMO and asked to provide better medical arrangements. After this, the team of doctors was engaged in treatment throughout the night. Most of the patients said that they felt dizzy after some time after eating buckwheat flour. Then vomiting started and after that the condition continued to deteriorate. This is the problem with most people.
Shubhangi Shukla told that at present the condition of all the people is stable. No one is serious. Samples of buckwheat flour are being sent for investigation. It is being ascertained from where the shopkeepers had bought this flour. After locating the factory, action will be taken there as well.
–IANS
