iPhone Maker Foxconn India: 150 Hospitalised After Food Poisoning, Workers Detained For Protesting On Highway

New Delhi: Workers of Foxconn Technology India Pvt Ltd staged a protest on the Chennai-Bengaluru highway after roughly 150 employees were hospitalised for food poisoning at the factory of the iPhone-maker. According to Reuters, the police detained scores of people for blocking the highway on Sunday.

Foxconn is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer, which makes iPhones for Apple Inc.

“There was an outbreak of acute diarrhoeal disease reported among the Foxconn employees,” a statement from the Thiruvallur district administration said. It said 256 workers were treated as out-patients and 159 were hospitalised, of whom 155 have already been discharged.

“Nearly 70 women and 22 men have been detained since Saturday for blocking the highway,” the news agency reported.