Tirupati: Eighty students from a government school in Shankarroyalpeta of Peddapanjani mandal in Chittoor district were rushed to the Palamaner government hospital when they fell sick after eating the midday meal on Saturday.
According to B. Prathap Reddy, district education officer, the students ate the meal in the ZP high school and some of them complained of giddiness, vomiting sensation, diarrhoea and other symptoms relating to food poisoning.
The school officials who found the students in an uncomfortable situation when they started vomiting, immediately rushed them to the hospital on two-wheelers and autorickshaws and other modes of transport. The doctors, after examining the students, admitted 19 of them as in patients. Ten students were discharged after treatment by evening.
One student Rushyendra was shifted to the Chittoor government hospital for better treatment and he was stated to be out of danger. Meanwhile, one student who sustained a fracture in his left leg while being shifted to the hospital, was referred to SVRR government hospital.
