A total of 50 people, including 40 children, fell ill due to suspected food poisoning after eating ‘gol gappa’ from a roadside vendor in Jharkhand’s Koderma on Friday evening. A health official said on Saturday that all of them had complications like vomiting and diarrhoea and were diagnosed with a bacterial infection.
Additional Chief Medical Officer (ACMO), Koderma told news agency PTI that those who fell sick had consumed ‘gol gappa’ from a street vendor at Gosain Tola under Lokai panchayat.
The official further said that they were rushed to Sadar Hospital where they are under observation for 24 hours.
The children are in the age group of 9 to 15 years and their condition is said to be stable. As per the PTI report, the remaining food items of the vendor were confiscated and samples were sent to Ranchi for examination.