Around 23 passengers travelling via Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express (22842) fell sick after eating meals served by the railways.

The passengers of coaches B3, B5, B7 and B9 who were served rice, chicken and other edibles by pantry staff at night, complained  of vomiting, loose motions, stomach pain and uneasiness. Later a passenger, Satya Prakash (at Gaya station) tweeted to Railway Minister that people in coach B3 are suffering from food poisoning and requested for help at the earliest. Following the tweet the matter was taken to the concerned authority and medical aid along with a doctor’s team rushed at Gomo station to attend the sick passengers, a railway official informed.  

At Bokaro Steel City Railway station, a Passenger traveling to Bhubaneswar said, “We suspect that there might be something wrong with the chicken dish that was prepared on the train.”

The Divisional Railway Manager SK Srivastava and Station Manager of Bokaro GN Singh said that after getting the information a team of doctors attended people who fell sick at Gomoh station first and later another team of doctors attended them at Bokaro Steel City station.

“It is a suspected case of food poisoning. All passengers are stable now,” an officer said.

A few passengers were also attended by the doctors at Tatanagar railway station enroute Bhubaneshwar. The arrival time for the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express at Tatanagar was 10.35 am, but the train arrived at the station at 1.45 pm and left Tatanagar station at 2.15 pm.

The passengers had got extremely irritated as the train was running over three hours late by the time it reached Tatanagar station, where it halted for 30 minutes instead of five minutes.