60 students hospitalized over suspected food poisoning
60 students from Kalyet secondary school in Kipkelion, Kericho County are hospitalized in Londiani hospital over suspected food poisoning
60 students from Kalyet secondary school in Kipkelion, Kericho County are hospitalized in Londiani hospital over suspected food poisoning.
According to the hospital superintendent Dr Collins Kipkoech, the students were rushed to the hospital in the morning after complaining of stomachache, diarrhoea and vomiting.
The students were reported to have consumed Githeri which was suspected to have been contaminated.
The first cohort of 47 students, whose symptoms had persisted, was rushed to the Londiani Sub County Hospital on Monday morning, including 9 boys and 38 girls.
Dr Kipkoech said most of the students have been stabilized and may be discharged from the hospital while some would remain for further observation.
He said the students were presented with diarrhoea and vomiting, an indication that it was likely a case of food poisoning.
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The hospital, however, warned that it risked running out of capacity to attend to the students, should the cases increase, due to what they termed as a lack of space to manage the situation.
”We have managed to treat all of them, and all are stable after receiving medications ranging from antibiotics to fluids,” a medical superintendent at the facility told the press.
”The challenge we have had with handling most of them is space. Our outpatient department is severely over-utilised, especially with these mass incidents, and we would appeal for assistance with the expansion process,” he added.
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