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Published on 2024-02-27 02:45:00
High school girls fainted during a sensitization session in Ilafy.
The beginning of the week was disrupted by the fainting of a group of teenage girls from Lycée Moderne Ankadikely Ilafy. It would not be an epidemic.
Group phenomenon. The Basic Health Center level II (CSBII) in Ankadikely Ilafy was overwhelmed yesterday morning. Students from Lycée Moderne Ankadikely Ilafy were admitted to this health facility for emergency care. The victims, all girls, fainted during the flag-raising ceremony, followed by a sensitization session on road accident prevention. “It was not an epidemic, but rather hypoglycemia. Most of the victims did not have breakfast before going to school. Others suffer from spasmophilia. And standing up for too long and sunstroke altered their condition and led to this collective fainting,” explains a doctor from CSB II. The fainting was characterized by dizziness, followed by loss of consciousness. Other victims reportedly arrived at CSB II in tears. “The treatments consisted of calcium and sugar. We used up a kilo of sugar. Their condition improved after these treatments,” the doctor continues. The figures on the exact number of victims vary from one source to another. The CSB said it received and treated twenty-five high school girls.
Incident
The school reports about ten victims. “Four or five had a spasmophilic crisis. One of the girls has been ill for a week. Another has just left the hospital. Two girls who accompanied their friends to CSB II had a crisis when they saw them. And then there’s the one who recently lost her mother,” said the school principal, Michelle Maria Razanavololona. The gendarmerie reports thirteen victims. “Seven were able to return home after receiving treatment at CSB II. Five are still under observation and the last, a sophomore, was sent to the district’s referral hospital in Anosy Avaratra,” according to their report.
And the General Directorate of Road Safety, which conducted this training and awareness session, said three students fainted during the gathering, in addition to the nine students who had already been excluded from the gathering due to a spasmophilic crisis. This incident occurred yesterday morning during the flag-raising ceremony. “The ceremony lasted too long. There was a road code awareness session that extended the gathering,” criticized some parents. The school principal responds. “We made sure to summarize the communications to shorten the ceremony. And those who were ill were allowed not to attend the gathering and to stay in their classroom,” she explains. The DGSR, which conducted a sensitization session on accident prevention, also specified that their interventions lasted only about twenty minutes. Classes were suspended yesterday morning at this high school.
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