About six inmates of Tikhiri Abashika Sevashram , a residential school for tribal students managed by ST and SC Development Department, fell sick due to suspected jaundice recently. A medico team from the district headquarters hospital rushed to the school to conduct health checkups of the sick inmates.
According to CDMO Binayak Prusty, the medico team collected blood samples and sent them for test at the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack.
All the six sick inmates’ condition was stated to be stable. But it has not been ascertained whether they were affected with jaundice or not. The sick students were identified as Ananta Hansda (class V student ), Chami Soy and Jaba Mahi (class IV student) , lili Purty (class III student) and Sita Hembram and Jandak Munda (class I students ).