About 74 children have been admitted to hospital in Zambia for suspected food poisoning, state radio reported. The children, aged between six and 14, had dined at a birthday party in Zambia’s second largest city of Kitwe.
“74 people mostly children from Kitwe’s Mulenga compound are admitted to the Kitwe Teaching Hospital for suspected food poisoning,” state-owned Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) reported.
70 are now in stable condition while four others are receiving special attention, ZNBC said quoting the hospital’s spokesperson Phoebe Chileya.
