About 10 students of Government Lower Primary School, Nimbekaipura vomited after eating midday meal that are supplied by Akshaya Patra. Their teacher, K R Puram immediately took all the students to a nearby private hospital and by evening all the students who were admitted got discharged.
An official of the Department of Public Instruction told Bangalore Mirror, “Doctors have told us that there is no reason to panic.”
As per a report by The New Indian Express, a teacher from the school said, “They cook the food in a large quantity at one time and supply it to all schools. This is the first time such an incident has happened at our school, and as per our observation, one child went out to play immediately after having lunch, which could have caused him to vomit.”’
“We have not received any complaint of children taking ill after consuming the food supplied by us from other schools on the same route or any of the 1,002 beneficiary schools in the city. The meals served to this school were cooked at our centralised unit at Vasanthapura. All our centralised kitchens follow high standards of hygiene, food safety and quality to ensure that nutritious food is cooked and delivered to the beneficiaries.”
This is what Akshay Patra, the man who supplies midday meals to most government schools had to say
There have been similar cases of food poisoning where children became sick after consuming midday meals. On December 2018, over 100 students from two different schools in north Karnataka fell ill due to the same.
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