Overview

• Around 35 girls at the government-run Ashram Gurukul School in Mudigonda were hospitalized after consuming chicken curry at dinner and pulihora rice at breakfast.
• Of the 35 affected, 30 have been discharged and five remain under observation in stable condition at Devarakonda Area Hospital.
• Doctors suspect gas formation from the tamarind rice triggered vomiting and loose motions, and preliminary assessments question frying of ‘alasandalu’ instead of boiling.
• Officials have collected food samples for laboratory analysis and established a medical camp on school premises to monitor student health.
• This incident is the latest in monthly outbreaks that continue despite a government task force, new SOPs and a revised diet menu introduced last December.