06.10.2009
Influenza А/H1N1 appears at Russian schools because of doctors
Moscow, October, 6— RIA Novosti news agency. Children at the Russian schools and kindergartens were ill with flu А/H1N1 because of administration of these establishments and doctors who did not adhere to recommendations of Rospotrebnadzor, the department press-service informs on Tuesday.
«The reason of occurrence of a number of the group pesthole centres of a pandemic flu diseases in the children's organized groups was infringement by administration of school and doctors of the general medical network of Rospotrebnadzor recommendations », — is told in the press release.
The main state health officer of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko has informed on Tuesday that in Russia the number of infected with flu A/H1N1 for two days has grown on 21 and came to 591, of them 512 cases — brought in. As it is marked in Rospotrebnadzor, group diseases by a new flu in September and October are registered in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Moscow and Kaliningrad, and also in Murmansk region, Transbaikalian Territory and Yamal-Nenets autonomous region.
In particular, according to Onishchenko, in Moscow because of flu A/H1N1 three classes have been closed on quarantine. On Sakhalin schoolboys who have returned from Bulgaria with virus A/H1N1, have infected the contemporaries.
«They were admitted to school, unfortunately, without having executed our instruction, there was an infection. Today across Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk there are 12 cases (disease) », — Onishchenko has told, having noticed that two schools of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk are already opened, and the rest of 20 will be opened by the end of this week.
At the Kaliningrad school number 35 physicians have found out two diseased, in the seventh and tenth forms and the establishment had to be closed.
«Now the situation is stopped, the school works», — the head of Rospotrebnadzor has told. Also the pandemic flu has been found out at four children of a boarding school of one of settlements of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area.
As it is informed in the press release, in the Astrakhan region physicians have closed seven classes at two schools, two kindergartens and in one more kindergarten — a group of eight persons. In the Orlov region quarantine at one school and one grammar school is declared from 2 till 7 October.
Children who have returned to Russia from foreign countries, within seven or ten days are under medical supervision and are not supposed in the organised collectives, marks the department.
Source: RIAnovosti.
