Summary:
Only then can we arrive at a conclusion,” said Mahesh Choudhary, chief district health officer of Chhota Udepur. Both of them succumbed during treatment.The school authorities informed the girls’ parents about the deaths. The school principal claimed that the girls were suffering from sickle cell anaemia.On Tuesday, the district collector and superintendent of police of Chhota Udepur visited the school.“I spoke to the girls’ parents but they did not want to get postmortems done. While Raksha was taken to a nearby public health centre by the principal and was later referred to the general hospital in Chhota Udepur town, the Vaishali was taken to the public health centre in Tejgadh by a school cook. We asked for their family health records, which we will get tomorrow,” said Sujal Mayatra, the district collector..