Holiday at RMG factory as workers fall sick

 CHITTAGONG, June 7: Authorities declared holiday at a factory in the Chittagong Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) Saturday as several workers fell sick with diarrhoea after drinking water supplied by the ready-made garment (RMG) factory.
The incident occurred at the Peninsula Garments, a concern of Sunman Group. There are nearly two thousand workers at the factory.
On information, from Sunman Group management, the CEPZ authority decided to test the water of its supply line and also clean the reservoir.
CEPZ general manager Ahsanul Kabir said some female workers started vomiting in the morning after they had joined work at 8.00 am. Colleagues took them to the CEPZ hospital. Around 25 of them were admitted to the hospital while several others were released after first aid.
Officer-in-charge (OC) of EPZ police Abul Mansur said several workers complained of nausea, headache and diarrhoea minutes after joining the work.
"It's a psychological diarrhoea. Some female workers fell sick after seeing the others sick," said the OC quoting doctors of the CEPZ hospital.
Workers alleged that they fell sick after drinking water supplied from the BEPZA water plant.
It was not, however, immediately clear whether the water supplied by the authority was the cause of their sickness. The CEPZ authority collected samples from the water plant to ascertain the real cause of sickness.