Children are extremely sick as a result of chlorine leakage in the pool . The accident occurred on Wednesday in the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation Swimming Pool .
Vijayawada: On Thursday, a swimming pool academy supervisor reported that more than ten children aged 8 to 14 years became sick as a result of chlorine gas leakage in a municipal swimming pool in Vijayawada district of Andhra Pradesh.The accident occurred on Wednesday in the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation Swimming Pool while the children were swimming.Children are extremely sick as a result of chlorine leakage in the pool.All the children were swimming in a 50-meter pool when the chlorine gas leaked from a tanker of the 25-meter pool.The incident occurred about 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday night as the children were preparing for the competitions in Eluru on December 11.As part of a competition on December 11, some of the swimmers requested that we give them permission to swim.
All the children are however healthy now, according to parents, who suspect the danger is due to poor chlorine system maintenance and operation.Ten to twelve students aged 8-14 years became sick as a result of the leakage of chlorine gas in the swimming pool.We took them to a government hospital.The gas leak was caused by obsolete equipment and an old gas cylinder. As a result, all students are doing fine.Mr Rambabu said that one of our workers also became sick in this attack along with our students.I am the only one who keeps the swimmer's logs, and the rest are managed by DFO and municipal corporation officials.The swimming pool was scheduled to open on August 8, but at the request of the swimmers, it was scheduled to open at 8:30 p.m. We alerted the authorities to the incident.They had arrived at the hospital and given their parents a warning, he said, adding, they had given them assurance.