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132 Children From Same School Have Food Poisoning
Written by P. Shinebayar
Tuesday, February 02, 2010.
Last Friday, 132 students from the Russia-Mongolia Joint Secondary School No.3 have been taken to the National Center for Communicable Diseases for intensive treatments.
According to preliminary diagnosis, the students aged 7-11 apparently suffers from acute diarrhea caused by food poisoning from meals served by the school?s dining hall and were a part of 236 day-boarders.
The source say that first symptoms of the food poisoning was observed in some of day-boarders beginning from January 28. For the past three days, 14 children were treated in reanimation unit of the National Center, after which were transferred to ordinary unit. However, the condition of five children is critical and are in reanimation unit currently.
Official sources say that samples of 49 products used by the kitchen for meals and foods on January 27 and 28 were given to testing and results of the testing is expected to be ready soon. According to the employees, the dining room purchase its materials from a food market ?Mercury? located nearby the school.
In connection with this issue, the Metropolitan Emergency Commission held an emergency session. As result of the session, MEC chairperson G.Munkhbayar ordered competent bodies and authorities get all ill children involved in testing, keep constant contact with their parents, perform complete disinfection within and surrounding the kitchen and take required actions when necessary.
The Russia-Mongolia Secondary School has been closed till February 3 under the decree issued by the Education Minister S.Otgonbayar. Consequently 1879 pupils from the school will not go to their school till Wednesday
132 Children From Same School Have Food Poisoning
Written by P. Shinebayar
Tuesday, February 02, 2010.
Last Friday, 132 students from the Russia-Mongolia Joint Secondary School No.3 have been taken to the National Center for Communicable Diseases for intensive treatments.
According to preliminary diagnosis, the students aged 7-11 apparently suffers from acute diarrhea caused by food poisoning from meals served by the school?s dining hall and were a part of 236 day-boarders.
The source say that first symptoms of the food poisoning was observed in some of day-boarders beginning from January 28. For the past three days, 14 children were treated in reanimation unit of the National Center, after which were transferred to ordinary unit. However, the condition of five children is critical and are in reanimation unit currently.
Official sources say that samples of 49 products used by the kitchen for meals and foods on January 27 and 28 were given to testing and results of the testing is expected to be ready soon. According to the employees, the dining room purchase its materials from a food market ?Mercury? located nearby the school.
In connection with this issue, the Metropolitan Emergency Commission held an emergency session. As result of the session, MEC chairperson G.Munkhbayar ordered competent bodies and authorities get all ill children involved in testing, keep constant contact with their parents, perform complete disinfection within and surrounding the kitchen and take required actions when necessary.
The Russia-Mongolia Secondary School has been closed till February 3 under the decree issued by the Education Minister S.Otgonbayar. Consequently 1879 pupils from the school will not go to their school till Wednesday