PORT ELIZABETH – Patient transport vehicles were on Wednesday dispatched to Ndamase Senior Secondary School outside Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape following reports of food poisoning affecting 250 hostel pupils.
Eastern Cape department of health spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said the first group of patients were on Wednesday night treated at Mthatha Regional Hospital.
Kupelo said that Mthatha Regional Hospital and Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital were already full and pupils were now being transported to St Barnabas Hopital in Libode.
He said some presented symptoms which included stomach cramps, vomiting and headaches.
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