Cooks faint after eating mid-day meal food in Bihar school
Madhepura (Bihar), July 18: In yet another incident of suspected contamination, two women who cooked mid-day meals for students of a government middle school in Bihar's Madhepura district fainted after eating the food today.
Rita Devi and Renu Devi had cooked the food for the school situated at Khar village in Gamariah block of the district, 21 km from here, police said.
The
school
principal
had
ordered
that
the
food
be
thrown
away
following
complaints
by
students
that
it
had
foul
smell.
But
the
two
cooks
ate
it
insisting
that
the
food
was
hygienic
and
fainted
after
sometime.
None of the students ate the food, police said. District Magistrate Upendra Kumar said the matter was being investigated. Police said the two cooks were taken to a health centre at Gamariah after they fainted.
This is the third incident in as many days of people falling ill after eating midday meal in Bihar. In Saran district, contaminated midday meal given to children of a school on Tuesday claimed the lives of 23 of them, while yesterday 50 others fell ill after eating food served to them in a Madhubani school.
PTI