Delhi: 24 MCD School Students Hospitalized Due to Gas Leak in Naraina

The gas leak had taken place at nearby railway tracks in Narainaa. As many as 15 students have been taken to RML Hospital and 9 students are at Acharya Bhikshuk Hospital.

A total of 24 children of a school run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have been admitted to hospital after they reportedly fainted inhaling gas in southwest Delhi’s Naraina.

“The gas leak had taken place at nearby railway tracks. 15 students have been taken to RML hospital and 9 students are at Acharya Bhikshuk Hospital. A team of doctors from the MCD’s health department and officials of the education department are also present at the hospital to monitor the situation,” said a senior MCD official, as reported by First Post.

“Children were given oxygen supply but the relief is that all the children are safe. Children have told us that they smelled some gas during their lunchtime after which they fell ill,” he added.

Delhi MCD Mayor Shelly Oberoi reacted to the incident and stressed that the “first priority is the health of the children".

“23 children had to be hospitalized after gas leakage reached a municipal school near the railway line in Narayana, Delhi. 8 children are admitted to Acharya Bhikshu Hospital, their condition is stable. 15 children are admitted to RML Hospital, out of which 2 children are Anxious, on Oxygen," the AAP leader said in a tweet.

Officials from the civic health department rushed to the two hospitals and also to the school and the education department of the MCD is also on the job, the official added.

“We will be probing from our level too as to what caused this incident,” he said.

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