“The smell came from the street”: what is known about gas poisoning of schoolchildren in the Nizhny Novgorod region

All victims of gas poisoning in the Nizhny Novgorod region were allowed to go home. This was reported in the local Ministry of Health.

“All the victims of the poisoning in the Wadi school were released home. There are no threats to life and health, ”the Ministry of Health said.

On Monday morning, more than 40 people were poisoned in a secondary school in the regional center of Vad, Nizhny Novgorod Region. The exact assessment of the victims varies, but according to doctors, 44 children and one adult were admitted to the local hospital. Some of the victims were soon released home. However, some participants in the incident stayed under medical supervision for several more hours.

“All the victims of the poisoning at the Wadi school were allowed to go home. There are no threats to life and health, ”the ministry said. At the same time, the agency previously reported that the condition of ten children examined by physicians was assessed as moderate in severity, and the rest in mild severity.

As RT witnesses at the school told RT, the victims complained of nausea and dizziness.

“About the third lesson, everything happened. The smell was coming from the street. In our room, before the lesson, the windows were closed, in the neighboring rooms they were open, so it smelled of gas, ”the students said in an interview with RT. Subsequently, classes at the school were canceled, the police and the gas service arrived at the scene.

The administration of the school told RIA Novosti that the cause of the poisoning was the gas distribution station (GDS), where the gas was vented. According to preliminary data, an odorant was released there. This substance is used as an impurity for gas, which allows leak detection. In high concentrations, odorants are poisonous.

The version on gas bleeding emergency services in the region. “Indeed, they were poisoned. Both children and adults. They blew gas to a gas distribution station (GDS), it came to us, ”the agency was told.

However, local gas workers denied the gas leak. According to Gazprom transgaz Nizhny Novgorod, no incidents were recorded at the station itself, which is credited with the release.

“No work with an odorant at the gas distribution station in Wada has been carried out today. Neither the automation system nor the GDS operator confirms any violations, the operation of the GDS is stable, ”the press service of the company quotes RIA Novosti.

However, the administration of the Vadsky municipal district said that the incident occurred due to a violation of the rules for operating gas supply equipment at Gazprom, and a leak in the school itself, equipped with a separate gas boiler, was excluded.

The circumstances of the incident intends to study the Investigative Committee for the region. According to the department, the schoolchildren felt unwell during classes, as a result of which they were taken to the hospital.

The regional prosecutor’s office also intends to conduct an audit of compliance with current legislation, the results of which will be taken.

In addition, regional authorities organized an operational headquarters at the scene of the incident. According to the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Deputy Governor of the Region Dmitry Krasnov, Minister of Health Alexander Smirnov and Minister of Energy and Housing and Utilities Andrey Chertkov promptly went to Vadsky District.

• Natalya Gracheva, Deputy Chief Physician for Public Health Services, Public Health Institution “Vadsky Central District Hospital”

Cases of mass gas poisoning

The last time mass gas poisoning occurred in Russia at the end of October. In the Orenburg region, eight people were injured at the Orsknefteorgsintez plant in a diesel hydrotreatment unit. The injured were taken to Orsk hospital.

At the end of July, in the village of Leninsky Gorky near Moscow, 14 workers were poisoned by gas. They went to the hospital where they received first aid. Half of the victims refused hospitalization, the rest remained for treatment in hospitals in the cities of Domodedovo, Podolsk and Vidnoe.

In June, seven residents of an apartment building were poisoned with carbon monoxide in the Zavolzhsky District of Ulyanovsk. The cause of the emergency was a malfunction of the gas column.

In the Kemerovo region in April, three adults and four children, all of whom were relatives, died from carbon monoxide poisoning in a private house with stove heating. In the same month, under similar circumstances, a family of six was poisoned with carbon monoxide, four of whom were children. The cause of this incident was a malfunction in the chimney of a double-circuit gas boiler, which heated the room.