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Mar 08, 2011 News
Fifteen students on a Hinterland Scholarship experienced food poisoning after 18:00 hours on Sunday night at the newly constructed Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara dormitory.
According to reports, the scholarship students who attend different secondary schools and Technical Institutes in the city were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where they were treated and sent away. Throughout the night students were being rushed to the hospital. The last student was treated at 5:30 hours yesterday.
“The students were travelling back and forth to the hospital, since they take in at different times in the night….I am sure those students can’t attend school and are nursing their sickness.” Sources said.
Sources disclosed that the food poisoning was due to expired canned foods that were prepared in the kitchen for the students.
It was also revealed that another issue that is affecting the students at the newly commissioned dormitory is the leaky septic tank in the compound.
The situation is compounded by the pungent scent that affects the students on a daily basis. Last September, President Bharrat Jagdeo commissioned the new hinterland scholarship student dormitory at Liliendaal.
The dorm was constructed at a cost of $95.4 M and caters for 120 scholarship students— 78 females and 42 males.
The scholarship programme which began in 1962 has been making it possible for students of the hinterland regions to access quality education here in the capital for years now.
When this newspaper visited the hinterland scholarship dormitory, the administrator disclosed that she was not authorised to divulge any information pertaining to the students.
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