More than 80 children were poisoned in the Stavropol.

41 pupils of kindergartens were hospitalized in the infectious department of the hospital in the city of Lermontov (Stavropol Territory), a representative of the Southern Regional Center for the Russian Emergencies Ministry told RIA Novosti .

According to him, 82 children applied for medical help from Wednesday. The interlocutor explained that children are hospitalized from three kindergartens of the city. “In the morning, even before breakfast, 25 children began to complain that my head hurts and abdomen sore,” said the head of the kindergarten Lyudmila Cheran, RIA Novosti.

The chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko does not exclude that the cause of poisoning is dairy products.

The operational group of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Stavropol Territory left for the place. The commissions of the sanitary and epidemiological supervision and Rospotrebnadzor work.

According to the Deputy Minister of Health of the region Galina Fedosova, the patients entered the clinic with a diagnosis of acute intestinal infection. These are mainly children aged three to five years.

In recent months, this is not the first case of poisoning of children in the Stavropol Territory. In August-September, 334 people were injured in the Georgievsky district as a result of food poisoning. Cases of the disease were registered in four children's preschool institutions . The cause of mass poisoning was infected dairy products.

In August, 129 people were poisoned in the Grace of the Stavropol Territory, most of them are children from seven kindergartens. Presumably, kefir was the cause of poisoning.