Approximately 30 students from Kamraj Memorial English High and Junior College in Dharavi, Mumbai had a harrowing experience during lunchtime when a distressing incident disrupted their meal. The incident, as reported by the Free Press Journal, unfolded when a lizard was sighted in the sambar, which was served to the students on their plates. The lunch, although not directly provided by the school, was catered by a local restaurant known as JP Hotel. This arrangement aimed to ensure that students, particularly those whose parents couldn’t arrange meals for them, were catered to for both breakfast and lunch.
According to FPJ, it was a student who noticed a lizard floating in the sambhar, prompting an understandable panic. Witnessing the reaction of their peer, other students began to vomit by inducing gagging. This sight triggered a chain reaction, with other students following suit. Following standard protocol, the affected class 5 and 6 students were swiftly escorted to the Ayush clinic nearby for precautionary food poisoning tests.
DCP Tejaswi Satpute, Zone 5, was quoted by the Free Press Journal as saying that at the moment, no parents have filed any complaints. He continued by saying that the FDA had gathered the food samples for analysis and that they will pursue the case further after the report was released.
All of the children were allowed back home with their parents when the hospital’s administrators confirmed that none of them had suffered from food poisoning.
Meanwhile, earlier last month, 117 students, including 48 girls, were hospitalised at Thane’s Shahapur sub-district hospital after developing food poisoning. According to the official, after being served pulao and gulab jamun, students started throwing up and exhibiting other symptoms of food poisoning. They were promptly taken to the hospital at the earliest. A complaint was filed against the superintendent, headmistress, and headmaster of The Sant Gadge Maharaj Primary and Secondary Ashram School, a residential school for tribal children, as well as the individual who brought the food from outside.
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