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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, December 6The preliminary cause of poisoning of workers involved in the construction of the new terminal of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky International Airport in the city of Elizovo was gastroenteritis, reported Deputy Minister of Health of the Kamchatka Territory Oleg Melnikov.
“»We are now conducting further diagnostics on the diagnosis, but, preliminary, the information is confirmed that it is gastroenteritis. The condition of the patients is of moderate and mild severity, but there is no threat to life. The victims are receiving all the necessary treatment and medications,” Melnikov said .
Currently, employees of Rospotrebnadzor and the Ministry of Health are working in the cafe where the workers ate, conducting the necessary investigation.
Earlier, the Kamchatka prosecutor's office began an investigation into the mass poisoning of workers involved in the construction of the new terminal of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky International Airport in the city of Elizovo. All people ate in a cafe located on the site under construction.
In total, 40 people were hospitalized. Currently, 11 workers are in the hospital in the city of Elizovo, 17 in the hospital of the AIDS Center, another 12 in the children's infectious diseases hospital in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.