<p>Eighty people, mostly children, fell ill allegedly after having food with spurious 'chaat masala' at a village fair in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district, officials said on Thursday.</p>.<p>The incident happened in Karmatand panchayat area on Wednesday evening, they said.</p>.<p>People of the Huchuktandhad village complained of stomach pain and were vomiting after returning from the Bhokta fair, officials said.</p>.<p>Eighty of them, mostly children, were admitted to the Shahid Nirmal Mahto Medical College and Hospital (SNMMCH) around 10:30 pm as their condition deteriorated, said doctor UK Ojha, the head of the Medicine Department of the hospital.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/east-and-northeast/jharkhand-27-children-fall-sick-after-eating-wild-fruit-in-forest-near-school-1197300.html" target="_blank">Jharkhand: 27 children fall sick after eating wild fruit in forest near school</a></strong></p>.<p>The condition of a child was critical, he said.</p>.<p>The youngest victim is nine years old Pinki Kumari, while the oldest person is 44 years old Vijay Mahto, he added.</p>.<p>As beds in the Emergency ward fell short with such a large number of patients arriving together, some were accommodated in vacant beds in other wards of the hospital, doctor Ojha said.</p>.<p>Additional doctors and nursing staff were called in to handle the rush of patients, he said.</p>.<p>Dhandab Civil Surgeon doctor Alok Viswakarma, who visited the hospital, ordered an investigation into the incident.</p>
<p>Eighty people, mostly children, fell ill allegedly after having food with spurious 'chaat masala' at a village fair in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district, officials said on Thursday.</p>.<p>The incident happened in Karmatand panchayat area on Wednesday evening, they said.</p>.<p>People of the Huchuktandhad village complained of stomach pain and were vomiting after returning from the Bhokta fair, officials said.</p>.<p>Eighty of them, mostly children, were admitted to the Shahid Nirmal Mahto Medical College and Hospital (SNMMCH) around 10:30 pm as their condition deteriorated, said doctor UK Ojha, the head of the Medicine Department of the hospital.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/east-and-northeast/jharkhand-27-children-fall-sick-after-eating-wild-fruit-in-forest-near-school-1197300.html" target="_blank">Jharkhand: 27 children fall sick after eating wild fruit in forest near school</a></strong></p>.<p>The condition of a child was critical, he said.</p>.<p>The youngest victim is nine years old Pinki Kumari, while the oldest person is 44 years old Vijay Mahto, he added.</p>.<p>As beds in the Emergency ward fell short with such a large number of patients arriving together, some were accommodated in vacant beds in other wards of the hospital, doctor Ojha said.</p>.<p>Additional doctors and nursing staff were called in to handle the rush of patients, he said.</p>.<p>Dhandab Civil Surgeon doctor Alok Viswakarma, who visited the hospital, ordered an investigation into the incident.</p>