Food Safety Officers collect samples of the food consumed by the hostel inmates. (Right) Students who complained of stomach problems being examined by a doctor of the Ussoor PHC at the TPGIT hostel in Vellore on Friday.
All except one discharged; food poisoning suspected
Twenty-one students of the Thanthai Periyar Government Institute of Technology (TPGIT), Vellore, 17 of them girls, who were staying in hostels were hospitalised on midnight of Thursday and on Friday morning as they developed symptoms of diarrhoea, including vomiting.
Dr. K. Poonkodi, Deputy Director of Health Services, Vellore, told The Hindu that all the 21 hostel inmates were admitted to the Community Health and Development Department (CHAD) Hospital of the Christian Medical College in Bagayam, close to the TPGIT campus soon after they vomited.
Later, seven of them were shifted to the CMC Hospital. The latest admission was made at 8.30 a.m. on Friday. Except one, who is under observation in the CHAD Hospital, the rest were discharged after injection of intra-venous fluids.
The Deputy Director said that the hostel inmates of both the men’s and women’s hostel had been given the same food on Thursday night. It appeared to be a case of food poisoning. A medical team from the Primary Health Centre in Ussoor was deputed to the two hostels to examine the remaining hostel inmates. Some of them who complained of stomach problems arising out of food intake were treated in the hostel itself. All are safe now.
Gowrisundar, Food Safety Officer, said that the Department of Food Safety has taken samples of the food consumed by the hostel inmates and sent them to the King Institute of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Guindy, Chennai for analysis.
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