Rajahmundry: Twelve people fell ill after eating sweets, allegedly stale, from a local kirana shop on Thursday at Pulusu Mamidi village of VR Puram mandal in East Godavari.
Eleven of them were admitted to Rekhapalli primary health centre while one person, a five-year-old girl, had to be admitted to Bhadrachalem area hospital. A medical camp was set up at Pulusu Mamidi village.
State health minister Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas (Alla Nani) responded to the incident and directed East Godavari district collector Muralidhar Reddy to take action against the owner of the kirana shop who allegedly sold stale sweets.
The minister directed the food inspector to inspect all kirana shops in Pulusu Mamidi village. The health minister further directed the district medical and health officer to conduct a door-to-door survey to check the households that purchased the old stock of sweets. The drugs control IG has been directed to inspect all sweet shops in the state.