Over 100 tribal students from Maharashtra’s Palghar district’s fell ill to food poisoning
The HinduOver 100 tribal children who were served dinner on Monday evening, woke up at midnight with stomachache, feeling nauseated, giddiness and started vomiting. District Collector Govind Bodke confirmed, “More than 100 children from different Ashram Shalas under the Dahanu Project of the Integrated Tribal Development Project were reported of food poisoning on Tuesday morning.” There are two central kitchens in the Palghar district: Dahanu and Jawhar taluka that supply daily meals to various Ashram Shalas in the district. In Dahanu taluka alone we have over 7,000 tribal residential children whose parents work in agriculture farms or migrate to nearby districts for work. The official report from the district health department said that an Ashram school in Rankol village in Dahanu reported to a rural hospital that students complained of vomiting, nausea, stomach pain, and fever hours after eating dinner on Monday night. Amit Narkar, CEO of Aroehan, a Palghar-based NGO that works on tribal development in the district said that the idea of a central kitchen needs to be completely scrapped as these kitchens start preparing meals as early as 1 a.m. and then by the time it is transported and served to the children, there is high chance of the food going stale.
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