At least 15 children have reportedly fallen ill after taking government-supplied deworming tablets at a primary school in Sirajganj.
All of the children are the students of class V at Barakandi Government Primary School. They have been admitted to Sirajganj sadar hospital on Wednesday evening.
Civil Surgeon Dr Debpodo Rai said: “As a part of the government's deworming tablet programme for children from the age of five till 12, the children were given tablet Mebendazole on Wednesday at the school.”
“They fell sick after taking the tablets.”
The students might have fallen sick because of taking the tablets in an empty stomach or because of psycho genetic illness, he added.
No problem was detected with the medicine in the primary test, the surgeon further said.