As many as 120 children were examined by doctors at home and 35 were admitted to the hospital after they felt sick at the school in Cioc-Maidan village in Gagauzia after having lunch. An ambulance was called out to the school.
Contacted by IPN for details, the secondary school’s principal Valentina Știroi said the students for lunch had soup, pilaf and vegetable salad. The food is prepared at the school’s kitchen and they don’t know what caused the poisoning. The first child felt ill at the seventh class and was taken to the hospital by an ambulance.
Constantin Ianioglo, vice director of the Comrat District Hospital, has told IPN that 35 children were hospitalized in the period between afternoon and midnight. The students aged between 9 and 14 had different symptoms of food poisoning, but the cause hasn’t been yet found out. These are receiving treatment in the infectious diseases section and their state of health is satisfactory.
Specialists of the National Food Safety Agency and the National Public Health Agency took samples to determine the cause of poisoning.
