32 students were admitted to Santiago’s Dr. Arturo Grullon Children’s Hospital all at the same time yesterday, Wednesday 25 February 2015. The students at the city’s Our Lady of Carmen School became ill after drinking milk. El Nuevo Diario reports that the children presented symptoms of stomach distress, some with vomiting and others with diarrhea. Hospital staff said that the students arrived at about 11:30am after drinking the milk supplied by the Ministry of Education as part of the school breakfast. They said that 19 of the 32 students were treated and sent home and only three are being kept in the hospital for preventive observation. On Tuesday 23 February 2015, there were reports of 55 students suffering from similar food poisoning in a school in Puerto Plata province.