12 Students Covid +ve, Many In Gurukul Have High Fever | Hyderabad News

HYDERABAD: Twelve nursing students in Kamareddy district have tested positive for Covid-19. The BSc (nursing) students of Govt Nursing College in Banswada are in quarantine in their hostel rooms.
Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy on Monday went to the hostel and assured the students that they would be taken care of. The speaker directed officials to provide the girls with proper diet and best medical.
Meanwhile, several students of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule BC Gurukul School are suffering from viral fever. Soon after students informed their parents about their fever, vomitings, headache and cough, parents rushed to the school at Bhirkoor and took their children home.
The students are believed to have complained to the authorities about their condition, following which a medical camp was conducted in the school and tests were conducted for 150 students. The students were given medicines but parents who wanted to take their children home were allowed to.
Parents of students at Mahatma Jyotiba Phule BC Gurukul School in Sircilla town resorted to a protest alleging negligence by the authorities in taking care of students. For the last one week or so, several students fell ill and were suffering from fever.
DMHO Suman Mohan Rao clarified that it was not a case of food-poisoning but the students were suffering from viral fever. As many as 27 students were sent home and another 15 are being given medical care at the hostel, authorities said.
On Monday, the authorities visited several residential institutions and hostels to check the facilities and hygienic conditions and give a report on instructions from municipal administration minister KT Rama Rao.
Rajanna Sircilla district collector Anurag Jayanti has asked all officials to submit reports about all the hostels and institutions by Tuesday.