Indore: 20 students fall ill due to food poisoning

An official said on Monday that at least 20 female students staying in a hostel of a private university in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district became ill as a result of alleged food poisoning. SAGE University registrar Manish Chowdhary told reporters that the students complained of vomiting, diarrhoea, and abdominal pain late Sunday night.

“Eight of the affected students are fine, while 10 to 12 students are receiving treatment at a private hospital in the Rau area,” the official said. On social media, some videos of the students admitted to the hospital surfaced, with one of them heard saying they had dinner in the hostel mess late Sunday evening.

The university administration, on the other hand, has denied that the food prepared in the hostel’s canteen was contaminated. “Many of our hostel’s students had gone to the city during the day and may have returned after eating outside.”

“We also discovered that some students had non-vegetarian food prepared outside the hostel grounds on Sunday,” Chaudhary said. The university’s hostel houses approximately 290 students (both male and female), but the other students who ate in the mess on Sunday are fine, he added.