Almost half of the 20 students from Rezina district who were poisoned by an insecticide last week were again taken to the hospital. A new case of poisoning happened in the lyceum of Cuizauca village after the students entered the same area. A number of 34 children were hospitalized.

Contacted by IPN, director of the Rezina District Hospital Nina Postu said the state of the children is medium grave. These were hospitalized with headaches, dizziness and epigastric pain. “The situation after treatment improved significantly. The children now feel fine. Only one child is in a more serious condition. This has bilateral pneumonia, which was detected in parallel. It was a period of vacation and the classrooms hadn’t been aired. When the children entered the room on the first day after vacation, they felt sick again,” stated Nina Postu.

In a press release, the Ministry of Health says the school resumed work in a very short period and the classrooms weren’t properly prepared and disinfected. “Thus, owing to the lack of communication and of professionalism on the part of those responsible for the identification and removal of the cause of poisoning and of those who allowed opening the school without an authorization from the Rezina Public Health Center, a new group of children was affected,” reads the press release.

The Ministry said that all those to blame for these mistakes will be harshly penalized. Also, by an order of the minister of health, the chief doctor of the Rezina Public Health Center will be fired.

According to the Ministry, last week the students were poisoned when a student burst a bottle of B-58 insecticide in the festivity hall of the lyceum. After the first case of poisoning, all the students were discharged from the hospital.