Students from Sacred Heart Mukumu Girls in Kakamega County have been admitted to the county general hospital with fever and diarrhoea.
The 124 students complained of fever and fatigue and breathlessness, with the medical Superintendent Boniface Nyumbale assuring everyone that the learners were receiving treatment to stabilise their conditions.
“We are currently busy attending to the learners who are complaining of a fever and diarrhoea. We will give further details after establishing the cause of the diarrhoea,” Dr Nyumbale said.
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Although it was not immediately established what the students suffered from, initial tests by public health officials ruled out Cholera saying it could have been food poisoning.
The county health chief officer David Alila said that more students were being received at the hospital, adding that the hospital would provide an extensive report after completing the necessary tests.
“We are yet to know what the real cause of the diarrhoea is. We are still conducting tests,” he said.
In May last year 28 students from the same school had been hospitalized with fever and diarrhea.