Stale food: 40 students hospitalized

Published February 13, 2002

TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 12: Forty (40) students of the Government Girls Degree College, Gojra, were hospitalized after they took stale food from their hostel mess on Tuesday.

Reports reaching here in the evening said the girls started vomiting soon after taking lunch. They were rushed to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, Gojra.

Half of the ‘food poison victims’ were discharged after first aid, hopital sources told Dawn by phone.

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