As many as 24 trainee teachers reported sickness after drinking contaminated water at Woman Polytechnic College on Wednesday.
The trainee teachers under Class III category of contract teachers were undergoing training and were consuming water for the past 4-5 days which was contaminated. On Wednesday morning one of the trainee reported sickness and complaint about stomach pain and vomiting and within no time several others started complaining stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea and few also complaint of fever which created ruckus in the training premises.
The trainees were rushed to civil hospital where after treatment they were discharged later. The teachers said that the drinking water was brought by a water tanker which was parked in the training center and they fall ill after drinking it from the tanker.
None of the affected trainees suffered severely from the contaminated water. Around 466 selected candidates are undergoing training for diet by the diet trainers at different training centers.
The 24 trainees who reported sickness are Susheel Suryavanshi, Rajendra Malviya, Babulal Goyal , Mohan Singh Goyal, Palash Singh, Dhanraj, Kamal Singh, lakhan Singh, Dhansingh Malviya, Seema Solanki, Archana Singh, Jyoti Sahu, Deepali Jain, Mahendra Patidar, Dinesh Malviya, Govind Singh Thakur, Vishnu Malviya, Santosh Patidar and Rakesh Singh.
Training in charge and District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) trainer Ramdhar Malviya said adequate arrangements were made for the trainees. The women trainees were provided accommodation at Polytechnic hostel while the men trainees were accommodated at Polytechnic premises.
The incident occurred due to the changes in the weather conditions and the medication has been provided by the doctors. All the trainees who reported sick are fine and would resume the training with a day or two, he added.