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50 girls fall sick at school function in Pirojpur

Victims of mass psychogenic illness, they land in hospital

Our Correspondent, Pirojpur
Around 50 students of Karimunnesa Girls' High School in Pirojpur town landed in hospital as they fell sick at a school programme yesterday noon.
As per instruction from teachers, the students came to school around 8:30am yesterday as the annual prize giving ceremony of the institution was scheduled to start at 9:00am.
However, the programme stated much later as AKMA Awal, chief guest of the programme, also the lawmaker from Pirojpur-1 constituency, reached the school around 11:00am.
Although the school authority set colourful awning on the school premises, it was not enough to ward off the scorching heat of a summer day and the students waiting there started falling sick.
At first school headmaster Md Abdul Halim I iawlader did not give much importance to the matter and took the sick students inside a classroom.
As the condition of the affected students deteriorated and the number of sick students increased, he arranged taking them to Pirojpur Sadar Hospital.
Around 50 students of different classes were taken there from 12:30pm to 2:00pm.
Seriously sick 15 girls were admitted to the hospital while others were given primary treatment.
"Around 11:00am, I felt vertigo and fell to the ground in the school field," said Nupur, a Glass VIII student.
A few other students told
the same.
Asked about the incident, headmaster Abdul Halim Hawladersaid, "Many of the students had come to school without taking any food. Added to this, scorching heat of the sun made them weak and sick."
"The affected students became victim of mass psychogenic illness. The problem, usually created from mental weakness, spreads fast among fellow girls. However, such patients get cured after treatment," said Dr Sankar Kumar Ghosh, resident medical officer of Pirojpur Sadar Hospital.
Although the annual sports of the school ended in January when it was winter, the school authority arranged the prize giving ceremony for the winners yesterday, around four months later.