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The Chinese are going to be compacted
SES demands to eliminate pockets of unsanitary conditions in Asian dormitories
Moscow sanitary services did not find SARS in the Chinese and Vietnamese dormitories, but found unsanitary conditions, overcrowding and a very easy likelihood of the emergence and spread of other diseases. As the correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper learned, the Moscow city sanitary authorities have now almost completed an inspection of dormitories and “places of compact residence” of Chinese and Vietnamese - employees of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate count at least 29 such buildings. Moreover, Asians actually live very “compactly”: for example, during a recent raid, journalists visited the sixth building of the former campus of the Moscow State Road Transport Institute. Citizens of Vietnam live here in groups of 10-12 people in small rooms with an area of 12-15 square meters. meters. Many even live in basements, industrial buildings and other premises that were never dormitories in the past. Naturally, there is no need to talk about hygiene in such conditions.Now the city authorities have to decide exactly how to deal with these potential sources of infectious diseases. The issue of closing Chinese and Vietnamese dormitories is also being considered. However, for now, sanitary services are trying to demonstrate that this proposal does not come from the capital’s doctors. As Leonid Vovk, head of the press service of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision Center for Moscow, told a Vremya Novostey correspondent yesterday, the closure of these dormitories was not the purpose of the sanitary inspections: “Otherwise the question would arise of where to resettle them, but there is nowhere to resettle them.” Nevertheless, based on the results of the inspections, sanitary doctors prepared instructions for the owners of hostels to eliminate pockets of unsanitary conditions and even announced penalties to officials of some administrative districts who did not control the cleanliness and order in the “China towns” and “Viet towns” located in the territories under their jurisdiction. And also the capital’s GSEN center promised to carry out such checks regularly, without waiting for special occasions.