Food poisoning: four dead,269 ill in Jhalod taluka

A 35-year-old woman died and over 148 new cases of food poisoning were reported in Jhalod taluka of Dahod district on Tuesday. This has taken the total number of affected people to 269 with four dead. A day earlier,three children had died and 121 people had fallen sick after eating stale food at different wedding parties. A team of medical officers from Vadodara has been rushed to Jhalod to handle the situation. They say there were over 12 wedding ceremonies across the taluka on Monday where the people had consumed food,which had turned stale due to the extreme weather. “The situation is under control and we have called in additional medical teams from Vadodara. The patients are being treated at various government and private hospitals across the district. Many of the patients admitted on Tuesday have been discharged,” said V H Pathak,Health Officer,Dahod.