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Scare as 138 Ikonge Girls School are taken ill with food contamination

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Some of the Ikonge PAG Girls students receiving treatment. [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]

138 girls of Ikonge PAG Girls in Nyamira are receiving treatment at various healthcare facilities in Nyamira County after they started exhibiting symptoms of diarrhoea, vomiting and lower abdominal pains.

90 of the total affected learners were admitted to Ekerenyo Subcounty Hospital while 48 others were taken for treatment at a private healthcare center which is less than a kilometer from the institution.

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