It is reported that on December 24 "43 pupils of the Kindergarten No. 6" Kolokolchik "in Puchezh applied for medical help, of which 16 preschool children were hospitalized at the Kineshemskaya Central Regional Hospital" with signs of poisoning. "
“On this fact, the Puchezhsky Interdistrict Investigation Department has opened a criminal case on the provision of services that do not meet the requirements of the safety of life or health of consumers (paragraph“ b ”, part 2 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of Russia),” the Investigative Committee said.
The department said that "in a criminal case in a preschool institution, samples of food were seized for sending for examination, other investigative actions are being taken to establish all the circumstances of the incident."
Earlier, Life.ru reported that an outbreak of acute intestinal infection occurred in a kindergarten in the village of Erbogachen in the Irkutsk region.
Medical assistance was required for 19 inmates and four employees of the institution.