By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The four students from St. Margaret’s Higher Secondary School, who were admitted to Nazareth Hospital in the city on Monday following a stampede in the school, were on Wednesday brought out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and admitted in the wards under observation.
School Principal Sister Marina Thomas on Wednesday informed that all the 11 students who were admitted in the wards were discharged while the four students who were admitted in the ICU have been shifted to the wards and would be released in a day or two.
“A few of the students who were taken to the hospital that day (Monday) have already joined school on Wednesday while the other students have been asked to stay home a bit longer,” she said.
Sister Thomas also said that the respective class captains have been asked to monitor the younger kids during the lunch break, after the assembly and after classes, to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. “Continuous meetings have been held with the school management, teachers and the class monitors,” Sister Thomas said, adding that the school has been taking preventive measures to ensure that similar incidents do not happen in the future, even as she mentioned that classes have been functioning normally.
As many as 29 students of the school between the age group of 7-13 years sustained injuries in the freak accident on Monday afternoon during the lunch break.
