Thirty eight students, including 14 girls, are being treated for suspected gastro-enteritis, after they took ill consuming contaminated water in an Adivasi residential school in Shind Kheda taluka of Dhule district in north Maharashtra.
While 34 tribal students in the age group of 6 to 15 years complained of symptoms of suspected gastro-enteritis like diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting on Wednesday, another four started complaining of similar symptoms and took ill on Thursday.
Of the affected students, 29 are being treated at a make-shift isolation ward set up at the private Kasturbai Ashram School in Tavkhede village, from where the incident of watercontamination has been reported.