The Ministry of Health reported that all victims of poisoning in Dagestan have been discharged from hospitals

15 children poisoned by drinking water in the Magaramkent district of Dagestan have left the hospital.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, the cause of the poisoning was the lack of water treatment and numerous violations in the water supply system, Rospotrebnadzor of Dagestan confirmed on July 13.

All those hospitalized after the poisoning in the Magaramkent district have been discharged from the hospital, said Dagestan Health Minister Yaroslav Glazov. "Doctors discharged the remaining 15 children after drinking water poisoning," TASS quotes the minister as saying.

This information was confirmed by the head physician of the central district hospital, Gadzhibala Beglerov. "All those hospitalized with intestinal infections have been discharged," RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

According to the regional Ministry of Health, the number of registered cases of poisoning in the villages of Magaramkent, Kuysun, Gilar, Gaptsakh and Verkhniy Tagirkent has reached 450, with 422 children among those infected, Interfax reports.

Recall that until the end of the day on July 11, residents of the district were prohibited from using tap water even for technical purposes. Although drinking water is brought to the villages, for hygiene purposes they have to use tap water, despite the ban, villagers told the "Caucasian Knot". "We continue to wash things with tap water, but what else can we do? We have three children, we can't wash all the things by hand, and where can we get so much clean water?" said, in particular, Maryam, a resident of Magaramkent.

Over the almost five years that Melikov has headed the republic (since October 2020), mass poisonings from tap water have repeatedly occurred in Dagestan.

For example, in June 2024, at least 228 people were hospitalized in Buynaksk after mass poisoning. The Rospotrebnadzor Administration stated that tap water was the source of the mass infection. In January 2021, there was also a mass poisoning of residents of Buinaksk with tap water, when 359 people sought medical attention. Following the investigation of the criminal case, the head of Buinakskvodokanal was fined only 100 thousand rubles, while the prosecutor demanded an even smaller fine - 50 thousand rubles.

Mass poisonings in Buinaksk occur against the background of sewage entering worn-out water supply networks and illegal taps into the water supply system, Dagestani specialists indicated.