Sevastopol's chief sanitary doctor, Volodymyr Tarasov, has been dismissed under an order issued by the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine, the Health Ministry's press service reported on Thursday.
Earlier, Health Minister Oleksandr Anischenko said that the chief state sanitary doctor of Sevastopol would be sacked because of negligent checks on the personnel of the Albatros children’s camp, where there was a mass outbreak of food poisoning of children and adults.
As of Wednesday morning, the number of people hospitalized with food poisoning from children’s camps in Sevastopol has increased to 85 (including 74 children, nine tutors and two attendants).
According to a preliminary diagnosis, 70 children have food poisoning.
The condition of one of them is moderately severe, while the rest have a mild form of disease, the press service of the Health Ministry reported on Wednesday.
The diagnosis of four children was not confirmed.
The press service said that the city’s epidemiological service organized medical supervision over all children and staff of the children’s camps, and carried out medical examinations of samples of food products.
Representatives of the Crimean Republican epidemiological service, the Crimean Health Ministry, pediatricians, toxicologists and infectiologists from the Crimean Medical University have left for the scene.
The preliminary cause of poisoning is food of poor quality, which has been taken for laboratory tests.
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