Forty students of the Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya Vidhayalaya Shikarpur, Roorkee in Haridwar district had to be hospitalised following food poisoning. The students of residential school started vomiting and had diarrhoea after consuming their dinner on Sunday night. The harried school administration initially rushed 20 students to the Civil Hospital Roorkee. later some more students were hospitalized. The students informed that they taken bottle gourd and Dal in their dinner. The worried parents of the students also flocked the hospital when they got to know about the incident.
The Chief Medical Officer of Haridwar, Dr B S Jangpangi told The Pioneer that all the students are out of danger. He said that he has asked the doctors to keep the students under observation till late evening.
He said that the district health department has collected samples of the dinner which was served to the students on Sunday. The CMO said that the case appears to be that of food poisoning.