Pupils poisoned in Prodanesti: Seven pupils were discharged and other four remain in hospital
Four children remain interned in the Floresti hospital after they got poisoned with the pills of a colleague, at the school. According to the doctors, the state of the other pupils is good and they don't need any treatments. The administration of the school say they will take caution in future.
The interim of the gymnasium from Prodanesti, Lilia Juncu says the incident took place yesterday at 9 o'clock.
"The colleagues made a bad joke. They took the pills from the girl's bag and started to spread them. The effect started to be visible after an hour, when a half them started to have headache and dizziness. The teachers noticed the pupils don't react at anything", said Lilia Juncu, the interim of the gymnasium.
Everything happened during the break, the pupils took the pills from the girl's bag, without permission and started to spread them. In a couple of hours, the first symptoms appeared. Thus, they alerted the doctors and offered the first aid to the pupils. Now, there are just four hospitalized children.
"The state of the children is not grave. But, anyway, they will take a treatment. One of the children was transferred from the Reanimation section in the morning. His state is better now", said Alexandru Ciocirlan.
According to the people of the law, the pupils consumed Clonazepam pills.
"The pills have Neuroleptic, relaxing and sedative influence. Thus, in the consequence, the pupils were sleepy", said Ludmila Capcelea, the deputy director of the regional hospital.
On the other side, the representatives of the National Center of Public Health say the pupils took some other types of pills too.
"The consequences could have been grave, as the children took three kinds of pills. The medical assistance was offered in time and the pupils didn't have to suffer", said Iuri Pinzaru, director of CNSP.
After this case, the representatives of the national education direction from Floresti went to the place of the incident and made an investigation.
"In the service investigation, there are implicated the director of the institution, the teachers and the medical assistant. If found guilty, they will be disciplined", said Angela Balan, the specialist of the general direction.
The circumstances are searched by the police and the prosecutors.
"We opened a penal case and now, we are searching for the guilty persons.
-In what case did you open the penal case?
-In the case we establish the guilty persons", said Lilia Mitu, prosecutor within Floresti Prosecutors' Office.
The prosecutors referred to the employees of the medical institutions where the girl was receiving treatment. The parents of the girl refused to talk with our team, but she told the teachers she didn't know their daughter took the pills with her.
Yesterday, 11 pupils aged between 12 and 13 years of the Prodanesti gymnasium were hospitalized after they took some pills with strong effect.
The pills belonged to a colleague who was taking the pills at the doctors' administration, to treat her intracranial pressure. Since the beginning of this year, 775 people arrived at the hospital after they got intoxicated with pills, half of them were children.