The Kuzbass Prosecutor's Office has organized an inspection of all 13 boarding schools in the region.

The Kuzbass Prosecutor's Office has organized an inspection of all 13 boarding schools for citizens with mental disorders in the region. This was announced on January 30 by Angelika Ustyugova, Senior Assistant Prosecutor of the Kemerovo Region - Kuzbass for Media Relations.

"With the involvement of specialists from Rospotrebnadzor and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the regional prosecutor's office and territorial prosecutors will check the implementation of sanitary and epidemiological legislation in institutions, compliance with fire safety rules, and assess the quality of medical and social assistance to citizens," she said.

The results of the inspections are under the personal control of the regional prosecutor, and if violations are detected, a full range of prosecutorial response measures will be applied.

The tragedy in Kuzbass: Nine patients died in a neuropsychiatric boarding school.

What is known about the causes of the tragedy and the progress of the investigation

The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Kemerovo Region reported on January 29 that nine guests of the Prokopyevsky boarding school for citizens with mental disorders died in January of this year, where influenza A had previously broken out. It was clarified that most of the dead were elderly people with chronic diseases. Decompensation of heart failure, circulatory system diseases, thromboembolism and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are listed among the causes of death.

The Investigative Committee noted that the deaths of three boarding school guests in Prokopyevsk are related to the flu, and the causes of death of six more people are being investigated. Later it was reported that more than 20 employees of the boarding school in Prokopyevsk were suspended from work.

The prosecutor's office of the region noted that during the inspection of the boarding school in Prokopyevsk, facts of non-compliance with sanitary and epidemiological standards were revealed, and the head of the institution received a presentation on the elimination of violations.

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