Apsheronsk: all hospitalized children discharged, kindergarten head sacked

Doctors have discharged all the pupils of kindergarten No. 7 of the city of Apsheronsk, Krasnodar Territory who were hospitalized with a suspected infectious disease, said an employee of the press service of the district administration. The kindergarten remains closed; its head was fired; and district doctors are visiting the homes and examine all the pre-school children who visited the kindergarten.

Let us remind you that according to the Territorial Prosecutor's Office, in total 31 children had addressed for medical help with symptoms of an infectious disease; nine of them were hospitalized.

"Yesterday (on April 21) in the evening six children remained at hospital. To date, all of them were discharged," said the spokesman of the district administration. 

According to his story, the children were diagnosed as rotavirus infection. Earlier, the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Consumer Supervision) had reported that the six hospitalized children were preliminarily diagnosed as an acute intestinal infection.

"That is, it was not a food poisoning; the district authorities rule out that children could get poisoned by the food prepared in the kindergarten," said the source and added the final analyses, conducted by the "Rospotrebnadzor" were not yet over.

The kindergarten, closed for prophylactics on April 21, will restart working on Monday, April 25, the RIA "Novosti" reports.