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More than 60 radical fell sick aft consuming prasada during the Sri Ramanavami celebrations astatine Bettenahalli village, Devanahalli taluk, Bengaluru Rural district, connected Saturday.
Around 400 radical had consumed the prasada in the morning, of whom respective began experiencing symptoms specified arsenic abdominal cramps, vomiting and escaped motions aft 10 hours. “Around 60 reported symptoms from 1 a.m. onwards connected Sunday and each of them are retired of danger,” Lakka Krishna Reddy, Bengaluru Rural District Health Officer (DHO), told The Hindu.
He said astir of the affected were treated astatine the Aradeshanahalli Primary Health Centre successful Devanahalli, portion immoderate were shifted to adjacent backstage healthcare facilities, including Manipal Hospital.
Dr. Reddy said respective of those admitted arsenic inpatients had been treated and discharged, portion astir 14 persons received attraction successful backstage facilities.
Health section teams rushed to the spot and initiated attraction measures. Food samples, including the ‘kalu prasada’, person been collected and sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory for investigation to ascertain the nonstop origin of the illness, helium said.
The DHO said that the concern is nether control, and nary superior complications person been reported truthful far. Further probe is nether way.
