The Limpopo health department says 50 learners from Dzumeri Primary School at Ndhambi village in Giyani have been taken to hospital due to a suspected food-borne illness.
Health Spokesperson Neil Shikwambana says the learners were sent to Nkensani Hospital after complaining of abdominal pains, with some indicating that they have been vomiting.
“Well, at this stage, we can also indicate that 11 more learners have been added to the 39 number, which makes it 50 now. The report that we got from our medical team is that all learners look stable and that they are attended (to) by 13 doctors and staff at the hospital in the greater Giyani area,” he says.
Shikwambana says the cause of the learners’ condition is being investigated.
“The common thing that the learners have eaten is a meal that they had at school, which is milk and pap, that they had today. It is suspected that it could have come out of that, but we are not sure as of now, because that would need for tests to be run. But that is the information that we got,” says Shikwambana.
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