Over 40 Bathinda school kids taken ill after consuming iron tablets
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, May 7
Over 40 children of a school at Ghudda fell ill allegedly after consuming iron tablets. Doctors, however, refuted the claim that iron tablets made them sick.
Sources said the children were admitted to Ghudda hospital this morning after they complained of loose motions and vomiting. Some of them were taken to the Civil Hospital, Bathinda.
Civil Surgeon Dr Tejwant Singh Randhawa claimed that the students had a dinner party which was attended by 200 children and something went wrong with about 35 students. “Though the food was good, children might have consumed something from somewhere else. There was no problem with iron tablets as well,” he said.
District Immunisation Officer Dr Rakesh Goyal, who went to the school to examine the students, could not be contacted.
