Maggots, nails, cockroaches and bits of wood found in campus food served at Al-Azhar University in Cairo has led to mass food poisoning, massive student protests – and even the president of the school has been ousted over it.
France 24 reports:
Students at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo are furious. They have been protesting against the dismal hygienic conditions at their university after several hundred students fell ill due to food poisoning.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, hundreds of students gathered around the offices of the president at the Cairo university to demand his resignation. On Monday, many of their classmates had fallen ill after eating a meal served at a university dormitory. According to a public health official, 479 students were hospitalized. …
Faced with the students’ outrage, the university’s board held an emergency meeting on Wednesday and announced the dismissal of the institution’s president, Oussama al-Abd. …
Before the scandal broke, students had already been complaining to the administration and had filmed a shocking video of the dismal hygienic conditions in their cafeterias. The students showed meals infested with maggots, nails, bits of wood, and cockroaches. …
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