Black leaflets were distributed on last weekend in Berdychiv city. Hundreds of them were found by citizens in their mailboxes, and on fences of their homes. Leaflets notified, that the local entrepreneur, the deputy of oblast council, Oleksandr Reveha, is connected to the mass fish poisoning of people on the Church holiday in the village Zhurbyntsi. The leaflets had no source data and circulation information.
Oleksandr Reveha is going to stand as a candidate in single-member Berdychiv district. Reveha Ltd. sponsored the purchase of fish and seafood for the conduction of the holiday
As you may know from the central mass media publications, the incident of mass poisoning was taken under control by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. Sanitary-epidemiological investigation of Berdychiv Sanitary and Epidemiological Service (SES) has proved - the reason of poisoning had become the violation of the technology of cooking.
17 patients with a diagnosis of gastroenteritis were taken to the infectious section of Berdychiv central hospital. They soon were discharged to outpatient treatment.
The honorary head of the Healthy Nation Foundation ("Zdorova Natsiia"), Mykola Petrenko, which is also planning to stand as a candidate in Berdychiv single-member district, has visited patients in the hospital and talked to the doctors. He also visited Zhurbyntsi village followed by a group of local journalists, and talked to the villagers. OPORA coordinator was informed by the charitable fund in Zhytomyr oblast, Mykola Patrenko decided first of all to provide needed compensation to help cover treatment and to bring the perpetrators to justice.
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