Greater than 300 ladies college students of the Aligarh Muslim College (AMU) have been taken to a hospital on Wednesday morning with signs of meals poisoning, authorities mentioned. They began displaying the signs after dinner at their hostel the earlier evening.
By the afternoon, virtually all of them have been discharged from the college’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical Faculty, they mentioned.
“The girls started coming in early morning and we have treated about 300 girls. Once they showed improvement, we discharged them. We are constantly monitoring the health of all the girls,” the hospital’s chief superintendent, Dr Haaris Manzoor Khan, mentioned. They have been residents of the Begum Azeezun Nisa Corridor, he added.
The Begum Azeezun Nisa Corridor of the AMU is a ladies’s hostel with a capability of accommodating 1,500 college students.
Because the information of the incident unfold, district authorities rushed a workforce of well being officers to take samples of meals saved on the hostel’s eating space and kitchens.
District well being officers and meals inspectors have collected meals samples from the hostel, an college official mentioned.