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Six students of a section assemblage were admitted to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026) evening aft consuming a brushed portion bought from the institution’s canteen that allegedly had an carnal portion inside. The students were discharged connected Thursday (February 19) aft being kept nether observation.
According to reports, the incidental took spot astatine the canteen of a authorities assemblage successful Tiruchi erstwhile the antheral students shared a vessel of the brushed drink, and recovered what appeared to beryllium the process of a skink successful the dregs. They were admitted to MGMGH aft complaining of nausea.
When contacted, M. Jegadish Chandra Bose, District Designated Officer, Food Safety Wing, told The Hindu that pursuing the incident, the canteen had been closed and the full banal of the brushed portion successful question had been sent for testing.
“We person besides ordered a hygiene and banal audit astatine the bottling portion of the drinks shaper astatine Lalgudi. The Food Safety Wing has besides checked the canteen premises for immoderate imaginable lapses,” Mr. Bose said.
A protestation was staged connected the assemblage field led by the Tiruchi territory section of Students Federation of India (SFI) connected Thursday. “The authorities person promised to instrumentality enactment aft the results of the tests are disposable wrong the adjacent fewer days,” said SFI territory caput G. Mohan.
