–says it may have been triggered by mass hysteria

THE strange behaviour of the 20 Dora Secondary School children that were rushed to the Linden Hospital Complex on Wednesday has been diagnosed as being symptomatic with mass hysteria.

The students, all girls, were rushed to the LHC on Wednesday. Eighteen of them were observed and sent away, while the remaining two were admitted but released on Thursday.
According to a relative of the first girl that was rushed to the health centre in Dora, all they knew was that she fainted, but nothing seemed to be amiss at the time, since she normally experiences such spells from time to time.

It was, however, after batches of girls from the school came swarming into the health centre that a decision was made to take them all to the hospital.
This newspaper understands that they were all displaying symptoms of someone who is mentally unstable.

After she would have evaluated them, Dr. Sandra Glasgow, a psychiatrist attached to the LHC, declared that the girls may very well have been suffering from mass hysteria.

According to the medical authorities, mass hysteria is a condition affecting a group of persons, and is characterised by excitement or anxiety, irrational behaviour or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms of illness.

Health workers in the community are continuing to monitor the situation.