Thiruvananthapuram: Six children were taken ill at the pool attached to Chandrashekharn Nair stadium sports complex. The first chlorine free pool had to be closed down following the incident. The samples were sent to the laboratory following the incident in which children reported throat infection and fever after using the pool.
The District Medical Officer said that a sample from the pool has been sent to the Government Analytical Lab and the results are expected within two days. The authorities however said that the health issues faced by students were not serious.
Mr. Subhash, the administrator of the pool, said the children had developed normal fever and cold. “What happen-ed was unfortunate but wasn’t deliberate. Water samples have been sent to the DMO. The result are awaited,” he said.
An official said during vacation time more students are accommodated. ‘It is unprecedented. Precautions were taken but it happened.
We have given strict instructions to students, not to come to the pool if you have some health problems. The water is cold and it’s common to have common cold and fever,” he added.
Swimming pool sample results in 2 days
The District Medical Officer said that the samples taken from the swimming pool attached to Chandrashekharan Nair stadium complex from where children caught fever and cold, have been sent to laboratory for plausible bacterial presence.
She said there was no evidence to substantiate bacterial volume in the water in preliminary tests done on the samples taken earlier. Another sample from the same pool has been sent to the Government Analytical Lab and the results are expected within two days.
The samples were sent to the laboratory following the incident in which children reported throat infection and fever after using the pool. Six children were taken ill at the pool attached to Chandrashekharn Nair stadium sports complex.
The first chlorine free pool had to be closed down following the incident. Children who had developed similar symptoms in other pools have now returned.
The authorities however said that the health issues faced by students were not serious.
Mr. Subhash, the administrator of the pool, said the children had developed normal fever and cold. “The water is cleaned every day and it gets changed once every week. What happened was very unfortunate but wasn’t deliberate. The new children are not using this water. The pool was closed for five days and the water samples have been sent to the DMO. The result are awaited,” he said.
An official said during vacation time more students are accommodated. ‘It is unprecedented. Precautions were taken but it happened.
We have given strict instructions to students, not to come to the pool if you have some health problems. The water is cold and it’s common to have common cold and fever,” he added.
