Nursing students fall ill due to suspected rat poison contamination in hostel in Bengaluru, 3 in ICU
Nursing students fall ill due to suspected rat poison contamination in hostel in Bengaluru, 3 in ICU
As many as 19 nursing students took ill and, of them, three are being treated at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). due to suspected rat poison contamination at the hostel of Adarsh Nursing College in Jnanabharathi on August 18.
The hostel management had engaged a private person to spray rat poison in the basement of the hostel where the generator had been installed, to keep away rodents which were biting the wires. Police suspect that the rat poison that was sprayed in the basement spread to the other areas of the hostel and was inhaled by the students, rendering them ill.
