New Delhi: 16 school children reportedly fell ill today in Haryana's Sonepat after they were given deworming medicines.
Initial reports said the children, from different classes of the Hindu Vidyapeeth school, were rushed to the hospital after they started vomiting. Some of them had also fainted, sources said.
It is National Deworming Day today and the Union Health Ministry has set a target of giving deworming medicines to 27 crore children in more than 500 districts, up from 9 crore last year.
'I ate the medicine which ma'm gave me, and soon after I started vomiting,' said one of the students.
Doctors said the deworming medicine given to children is approved by the World Health Organisation and is expected to have only minor side-effects.
More details are awaited.
Initial reports said the children, from different classes of the Hindu Vidyapeeth school, were rushed to the hospital after they started vomiting. Some of them had also fainted, sources said.
It is National Deworming Day today and the Union Health Ministry has set a target of giving deworming medicines to 27 crore children in more than 500 districts, up from 9 crore last year.
Doctors said the deworming medicine given to children is approved by the World Health Organisation and is expected to have only minor side-effects.
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