Over 30 Gandhi Medical College Hyderabad students fall ill after water Contamination, 1 contracts hepatitis: Report
Telangana: In a shocker, more than 30 undergraduate students residing in the boys' hostel at Gandhi Medical College in Telangana reportedly fell ill due to contaminated drinking water.
Students reported finding worms in the drinking water tank. One of the students also contracted hepatitis. Thirty students complained of diarrhoea and vomiting, and they were treated at Gandhi General Hospital, as per Deccan Chronicle.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, a supply line was dug at the UG girls' hostel so that samples could be sent for testing to determine whether their water, too, contains any contamination or not.
Speaking to the DeccanChronicle in this regard, an outgoing senior male student said ‘We are facing this water contamination for the first time in all these years. We are buying water from outside for drinking purposes”.
A third‑year student told the daily: “We did raise this issue, and they told us that they would clean the tanks, but as it was severe, they started doing it today. One of the thirty also got hepatitis, and the rest are being treated at Gandhi General Hospital. We found large worms in the tank”.
Meanwhile, Dr K Indira, principal of Gandhi Medical College, informed DeccanChronicle, “There are over 30 students who complained of diarrhoea out of 300 UG students from both girls’ and boys’ hostels. These students regularly consume outside food rather than eat in the mess. All of the students would have suffered otherwise, right? So, we sent water samples from both boys’ and girls’ hostels to the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM), and the reports will take 48 hours. Worms in water are not toxic; for the time being, we have been asked to supply water bubbles.”
