More than 140 participants of Seliger received food poisoning

More than 140 participants in the Prochrevsky Youth Forum "Seliger" received food poisoning, of which 34 were hospitalized. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of Rospotrebnadzor. “In average severity, only three, the rest are a slight shape,” the department noted.

“From two in the morning, our experts have been working in the camp, now they are there,” the press service said. “The main reason where violations have been identified is the catering block. Measures were taken to organize safe nutrition.”

Earlier, the head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, Sergei Pospelov, said that about 30 participants in the forum with signs of mild food poisoning were delivered to the hospital after they ate food that had stood for several hours in the heat. According to him, on Monday they will be able to return to the camp, there is no talk of suspension of the forum.

The anniversary tenth "Seliger" takes place from July 13 to August 10. He will be visited by 20 thousand young people in four races. Two forums of youth projects, forum "Russia in the Center" and "Civil Forum" will be held.

At the end of June, RBC said that the Summer Prochrevsky Youth Camps will cost the budget and sponsors at least 740 million rubles . Rosmolodezhi expects to attract about 340 million to hold Seliger, told the Pospelov to the publication.

273 million rubles will be spent from the budget. Another 20 million forum organizers expect to receive from funds allocated to the educational programs of the Ministry of Education and Science. The same amount will be received from sponsors. About 33 million will bring the registration fee, which is paid by the participants in the event.

About 50 million rubles, Rosmolodezh will spend on organizing eight other summer camps. Among them is the Tauris camp in the occupied Crimea. There is no information about the sponsors of these sites yet.

On March 21, on the day of approval by the Crimea Annexation Federation, the head of the executive committee of the All -Russian Popular Front, Andrei Bocharov, said that the ONF intended in July - August to hold the Tavrid youth forum in Crimea . Support for the rally will be held by the organizers, he said. The forum will take place in several shifts; His agenda, according to the functionary, "will be wide enough." One of the topics of Tavrida will be the development of youth entrepreneurship. According to Bocharov, the business ombudsman Boris Titov made such an initiative.