Physicians refute children's poisoning in 2007 in Ingushetia

Employees of the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Ingushetia deny the information about the critical condition of the teenagers who were brought with symptoms of toxic poisoning in 2007. The Ministry of Public Health also knows nothing about the incident.

"We lack any reliable conclusion that a poisoning took place then, and what the cause of the poisoning was, even after the examination held by a special invited chemist's service. We have no proofs of poisoning," Tamara Kasieva, Deputy Chief Physician of the Hospital, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

We remind you that on February 28, 2007, 11 pupils of the Technical School No. 1, located in the Nasyr-Kort municipal district of Nazran, were brought to the Ingush Republic's Clinical Hospital (IRCH) with symptoms of a toxic poisoning. All the children had nausea, vomiting and asphyxia. On March 1, 5 more pupils from the School were brought to the IRCH, together with two schoolgirls of the "Mariam" School, located in the city of Magas. The age of the victims was 15-20.

Radimkhan Gandarova said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her two daughters - Zaira, 16, and Madina, 20, got sick then. "Madina and Zaira sometimes faint for hours. They have incessant headaches, constant vomiting, nausea, cramps and asthma attacks," she added.

One of Gandarova's daughters - Zalina Amkhadova, 18, who got married already after the disease inception, - lost her child. Within a month, according to her mother, she was placed 5 times to the resuscitation ward. Patients also periodically have nervous attacks and stomach pains. Some of the pupils, according to Radimkhan Gandarova, began fainting only two years after the poisoning.

Parents of the victims conducted their own independent examination in one of Moscow laboratories. According to it, as the mother said, Madina Gandarova had 880 mg of some zinc substance in her body against normal value of 155.7 mg.

In 2007, parents of sick children lodged an appeal to President of Ingushetia asking to help their children. They even held a picket near the building of the President's administration in Magas, insisting to have a personal meeting with the then President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov, however, they were never accepted.