Two children after poisoning with chlorine vapor in a swimming pool in St. Petersburg are in a state of moderate severity in intensive care, three more children are in a mild severity. This was told by the head physician of the Children’s City Clinical Hospital No. 5 named after Filatov Lyudmila Isankina.
According to her, five children were delivered to the medical facility – one is 15 years old, the rest are seven to eight years old. The doctor noted that the condition of all victims is stable at the moment.
Earlier, a representative of the city health committee said that eight children were poisoned by chlorine fumes in a swimming pool in St. Petersburg, five of them were hospitalized. The prosecutor’s office of the Frunzensky district of the city organized a check on the report of the poisoning of children with chlorine in the pool. Investigators have opened a case for the provision of services that do not meet security requirements.