At least 14 children ill with vomiting & diarrhoea after catered lunch at Toa Payoh PCF Sparkletots

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14 children have come down with vomiting and diarrhoea after eating a catered lunch at a PAP Community Foundation (PCF) Sparkletots kindergarten, Channel NewsAsia (CNA) reported.

The incident happened at Block 45, Toa Payoh East on Feb. 1, with the affected children aged between three and six years old.

Quoting PCF’s manager of corporate affairs Samuel Ng, CNA reported that so far, two children were diagnosed with food poisoning, one child was ill with “suspected food poisoning” while three more had been diagnosed with stomach flu.

Channel 8 News added that some parents also took their children to a clinic for medical treatment.

CNA reported that as of the morning of Saturday, Feb. 2, no child was hospitalised yet.

Catered lunch was served to around 40 children
Both CNA and Channel 8 News reported that the centre has been providing catered lunch for its children since Nov. 15, 2018, when its in-house cook resigned.

Ng reportedly confirmed that around 40 children were served a catered lunch at 11:15am on Friday, Feb. 1.

But at 3:30pm, 14 of the children who had eaten the lunch began throwing up and experiencing diarrhoea.

A parent quoted by Channel 8 News said the symptoms had emerged during afternoon tea, while her child was eating white bread with milk.

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At least 14 children ill with vomiting & diarrhoea after catered lunch at Toa Payoh PCF Sparkletots

 

[syed putra]

The probably served non halal chinese food. Its only edible to chinese people.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Supplied by John Tan's company

 

[steffychun]

Will they parents vote for the PAP in the coming election?

 

[borom]

Under the no blame culture, our children will continue to suffer as nobody ever sent to jail for so causing so many to fall sick-but security guards will be jailed for sleeping!

 

[laksaboy]

It's better to let the children fast until dinner time. Let them sleep until sunset.

Save money, and zero chance of food poisoning.

 

[whoami]

1st world

Under the no blame culture, our children will continue to suffer as nobody ever sent to jail for so causing so many to fall sick-but security guards will be jailed for sleeping!

Security officer nowadays need to multi tasks. Have to perform job of jaga, safety officer, customer officer, recording officer, "ica" officer, coordinating officer....wah...kongbayleow. But basic only $1200 pm.

 

[rushifa666]

Go to pap school, dont ckmplain. Singapore caskets now have buy one get one free with so many deaths every month

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

Ftashes cooking...

 

[laksaboy]

Kindergartens have no on-site kitchen, who knows what happened to the food during the delivery?

 

[mojito]

1st world

Security officer nowadays need to multi tasks. Have to perform job of jaga, safety officer, customer officer, recording officer, "ica" officer, coordinating officer....wah...kongbayleow. But basic only $1200 pm.

Of course! Else how to SkillsFuture, career ladder and all that bs they come up with you tell me?

 

[whoami]

Of course! Else how to SkillsFuture, career ladder and all that bs they come up with you tell me?

Yes. Is all pure BS. Sm of the courses dont really need to attend. Pure commonsense will do. Fm junior post of security officer to post of Snr security Supervisor (sound so clamour..hmmm..) one need to attend at least 4 different courses. Quite tough. Oral n written. But it doesnt tally with the pay. For a Snr secu supervisor they only get gross S$3200. If short of manpower latter need to double up as security officer too.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Catered lunch is the issue la. Most of the time those stupid catered meals are cooked in the morning. I suspect the food was prepared very early on, and then just heated up just before serving.

That's why in most of these preschools, there is a cook to prepare the food fresh on the spot.

 

[IndoMee]

Somebody gonna get hurt real bad...

 

[rushifa666]

Pc fucking f can charge you as muc as montessori! Its because they only subsidise their cronies business that you pay much less! Montessori got such scandals?