04 October 2007, 16:03
Ecologists demand to stop experimenting on children in Stavropol Territory
Today, because of the mass outbreak of acute intestinal infection in kindergartens of the city of Lermontov, Stavropol Territory, the supporters of the Territorial Ecological Organization "Podorozhnik" (Plantain) have picketed the building of the Russian State Committee for Consumer Goods Supervision ("Rospotrebnadzor") with a demand to stop experiments on children.
Vladimir Poluboyarenko, leader of the "Podorozhnik," has explained today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that "outbreaks of such infectious diseases occur every month, not even dozens but hundreds of sick children are registered. I'll not be surprised when they are thousands. We think that it's high time to stop this 'experiment' on children. We continue to assert that the ' Rospotrebnadzor' fails to supervise and, we can assume, cannot supervise the sanitary-and-epidemiologic situation in the Stavropol Territory."
Today, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has been informed at the press service of the Governor of the Stavropol Territory that starting October 3 three kindergartens of the city of Lermontov (Stavropol Territory), counting 173 children in total, have suffered from an outbreak of an infectious disease in children. Now, a total of 47 small patients are taking their treatment at medical institutions; their condition is of average gravity with a trend towards improvement.
We remind you that in late August-early September in the Georgievsk District of the Stavropol Territory a mass outbreak of poisonings in children happened. Since August 16, a similar outbreak of children's poisonings was registered in the Blagodarnenskiy District of the Territory.
Author: Elena Kostenko, CK correspondent
