Five city preschoolers were yesterday morning rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and admitted overnight after they ingested rat poison allegedly taken to school and shared by a peer.
The five girls, aged 5 and 6 years old, were taken to the hospital by their teacher after one of them began vomiting and investigations revealed that they had consumed the rat poison which another student had shared as candy.
Doctors, after carrying out various tests, told the parents that while it did not appear that the children were in any danger,