34 students fall ill after drinking water in their school in Bihar

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 03 Agustus 2013 | 08.20

PATNA: Schoolchildren falling sick after drinking contaminated water from hand pumps continued for the third consecutive day today. At least 34 more students fell ill in different parts of Bihar.

At least 24 children complained of vomiting and stomach ache after drinking water from a hand pump located in the government middle school Biraul in Darbhanga district.

Besides the children, a teacher and the cook of midday meal in the same school also complained of vomiting and stomach ache, the in charge of midday meal Sardul Hassan said.

He said all of them were taken to Biraul primary health centre.

Hassan said the hand pump has been sealed for probe. A report from Jehanabad said that 10 students fell sick after drinking water from a hand pump in the premises of a primary school at Nonhi Mathia under Kako block of Jehanabad district.

Sub-divisional officer Manoranjan Kumar said the ailing children were taken to Jehanabad Sadar Hospital where all of them have been reported to be out of danger.

He said the hand pump has been sealed and its water sent for tests.

In Samastipur, five sulphas tablets were found from the hand pump installed in a government school in Pagra village in Dalsinsarai block.

Sub-divisional officer of Samastipur Varun Kumar Mishra said that on the complaint of the school principal he reached the school and on opening the hand pump, five sulphas tablets were found inside it.

Panic spread in a government middle school in Lalganj block of Vaishali after red coloured water came out of the hand pump installed in the school premises.

On hearing the news, the sub-divisional officer reached the school and after water sample was collected, the pump was sealed.

After the tragic death of 23 children at a Chhapra school after eating midday meal, there has been a spate of complaints of children falling sick after drinking water from hand pumps in their school across the state.

More than 55 children had fallen ill at Sitamarhi yesterday.

Expressing grave concern over the incidents, chief minister Nitish Kumar has asked the administration and locals "to keep an eye over elements indulging in such dastardly act of mixing poison in hand pumps".


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