Pskov: Parents report a large -scale infection at school

The mother of a first -grader from the Pechora secondary school No. 3 in the Pskov region Daria Plaksina on the official website of the governor spoke about the mass intestinal infection in the educational institution. According to Plaksina, at the end of last week only 10 children out of 23 came to the classroom. One of the students lies in St. Petersburg in an infectious diseases hospital with a diagnosis of gastroenteritis: the child’s pancreas and kidneys are affected.

“The school principal and the local clinic do not take any measures to eliminate the problem! Today in the 7AA grade, where my sister’s son is studying, there were three cases of vomiting during lessons, there is no medication at school! They are not going to close the institution, they ask not to sow a panic,” Plaksina wrote.

On the governor’s website, her appeal hangs unanswered, the head of the regional health committee Marina Garashchenko was appointed. The department did not answer the calls of the correspondent of the North.

The Office of the Education of the Pechora district correspondent of the North. Reali explained that the outbreak of infection occurred on the night of January 23 to 24. “On Friday, we had about 140 children with signs of illness. At the school, there were no 5% of the total number of students at the school (505 people study at the school - North North. Reali). We were told that this is a norovirus, the sanitary and epidemiological station came for measurements, now we were waiting for the results. All 140 people had already come to the school healthy,” the apparatus employee assured.

Nina Yaroslavtseva, director of the Pechora secondary school No. 3, said that the cases indicated in the appeal of Daria Plaksina were a lie. According to her, in grade 7A, both today and other days in other classes, there were no cases of vomiting in the lessons. Yaroslavtseva also added that on the night of 23 to 24 to 2 students of different classes, for various reasons, they entered the regional infectious diseases hospital. In addition, employees of Rospotrebnadzor took samples of products and water and examined the food block employees.

"Everything is fine in the food block at the present time, well, there were no infections. On January 24 and on weekends, there was a complete disinfection of the premises. In the following days, there were no cases of students' appeal to the medical institution of the Pskov region," the director says.

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The head of the regional Rospotrebnadzor, Alexander Nestruk, specified that 4 schoolchildren were called an ambulance on the night of January 24, three of them were hospitalized in the infectious department of the Pskov city hospital with diarrhea, vomiting and high temperature, one refused to stay in the hospital. According to him, now out of 505 students - there are no only 20. "It was a norious infection. We tend to think that it was through the catering unit. We have detected this novorous infection on the catering unit, and it had patients," Nesterruk concluded.