Rospotrebnadzor of Dagestan reported unsanitary conditions in the kitchen of the Rubas Hotel

Multiple violations were found in the food service area of the Rubas Hotel, including unsanitary conditions, lack of medical records for staff, and the use of expired products. The work of the hotel's food service area, as well as the cafe of the Ostrov Raft tourist center, where the poisoned children ate, has been suspended.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel wrote, an outbreak of food poisoning occurred at the Rubas recreation center in the Derbent district. It is known about 28 victims, including 25 children, 20 people were hospitalized, including 17 children. Their condition is assessed as mild.

The activities of the food service department of the Rubas Park Hotel and the Ostrov Raft cafe in Dagestan have been suspended after food poisoning, the Rospotrebnadzor Department for Dagestan reported today.

Gross violations of sanitary legislation were found in the food service department of the Rubas Park Hotel: lack of flow in technological processes; lack of accompanying documents for food products; lack of medical records for staff; unsanitary condition of the food block, use of expired products.

"At the same time, it was established that on August 23, a group of children visited the Ostrov Raft tourist center for the purpose of an excursion trip, where meals were also organized in the food block, where a complete lack of the necessary technological mode of cooking and a set of premises was revealed," the report says.

The Rubas tourist center in the Derbent district is a complex on the seashore, which includes a park hotel, cottages and a campsite. The center is located on the first line, 18 km from Derbent, according to the website of the tourist center.

Earlier, "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote that after mass poisoning in early July in five villages of the Magaramkent district (Magaramkent, Kuysun, Gilar, Gaptsakh and Verkhniy Tagirkent), an official responsible for housing and communal services was detained. Kindergartens in these villages were closed, and authorities organized the delivery of drinking water for residents. Those responsible for water supply did not disinfect water in reservoirs, water supply networks and storage tanks, the Ministry of Construction of Dagestan stated following an inspection.

The head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, called on the head of the Magaramkent district, Farid Akhmedov, not to go into military service and "answer for what happened." Those responsible for water supply did not disinfect water in reservoirs, water supply networks and storage tanks, the Ministry of Construction stated. A criminal case has been opened, and the director of the municipal budgetary institution "Housing and Utilities" has been arrested. The head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, called the mass poisoning the result of "negligence and irresponsibility" and promised that "everyone involved in this negligence will be held accountable."