ZAMBOANGA CITY: A number of students from the Zamboanga region were reported to have fallen ill on Wednesday after taking deworming medicines given by their schools as part of the government’s National School Deworming Day.

The Department of Health (DOH), targeting elementary students in 38,000 public schools across the country, launched the campaign.

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