The water provide community of the communities of Rizomylos and Stefanovikiou in Magnesia was contaminated by salmonella, enterococci and different coliform micro organism originating from faeces, in keeping with the laboratory analyzes of the EODY posted on its web site by the municipality of Riga Feraio, after dozens of circumstances of gastroenteritis.
The Division of Public Well being of the Magnesia Area additionally despatched a letter to the municipality on Monday, which acknowledged that it has “repeatedly notified” the municipality of the remedial actions required.
The Directorate of Public Well being requested the municipality to proceed with cleansing and disinfection of the water provide tanks and pipelines and to extend the chlorine ranges with a purpose to neutralize the micro-organisms.
He additionally requested that the residents learn in regards to the microbiological burden discovered and that the water provide community be monitored.
The next announcement was then issued by the municipality of Riga Feraio: “From the second the water high quality drawback arose within the settlements of Rizomylos and Stefanovikiou, DEWA Riga Feraio has been in fixed contact with the EODY and the Well being Directorate and is following their directions. The Well being Directorate acquired samples from the reservoir and the water provide networks of Rizomylos and Stefanovikiou and after the completion of the analyzes they had been despatched to us on 4/6/2024 and we’re making them identified”.
As reported by ERT, 5 of the 9 kids who had been hospitalized with signs of gastroenteritis stay within the Volos Hospital.
Two adults are nonetheless hospitalized within the Pathology Clinic, whereas an aged man with underlying illnesses who’s in a critical situation stays within the ICU.
Traces underneath the new solar for just a few bottles of water
Residents underneath warmth circumstances are referred to as to face the epidemic that has hit the world.
Water, working from their faucets, continues to be prohibited and aqueducts provide residents with clear water for ingesting, bathing or cooking.
Life within the space has frozen as bakeries, eating places, cafes, crops can not function, whereas nobody is aware of when the water within the space will likely be appropriate to be used once more.
Underneath the new solar with the temperature hitting crimson, residents are queuing for some water.
Water carriers of the municipality provide the residents with water. They fill bottles and even kegs.
“I got here to get water, I’ve one little one with delicate signs, thankfully the others are advantageous,” mentioned a resident of the world.
After the outcomes, the residents come to get water for ingesting and private hygiene.
Hundreds of bottles of bottled water are being distributed by the native authorities and the Pink Cross, because the water is now not potable and unfit for any use.
“Flip off all of the faucets within the village. Folks cannot be dying,” the residents emphasize.
Enterprise exercise “freezes”.
Eating places have closed, whereas those who stay open don’t use faucet water. “I take advantage of bottled water to ferment,” mentioned an entrepreneur.
Additionally, faculties stay closed. The director of the varsity in Stefanovikio mentioned: “We’ve got closed all of the valves. We’ve got procured bottled water.”
Even immediately, residents with signs of gastroenteritis flock to the well being heart of the area.
Katia Korovela, a health care provider famous: “The circumstances proceed, gastroenteritis with stomach ache and we’re additionally instructed about circumstances at residence, so we do not know what number of there are in whole.”
The authorities are on the lookout for the reason for the evil. Nobody but is aware of how the water provide grew to become contaminated with salmonella.
Controls for the reason for the contamination are persevering with, whereas the cleansing of the water provide community has progressively begun.
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