Tatarstan camp to be checked after 12-year-old girl dies of meningococcal infection

Roza Chemeris, first deputy chair of the State Duma committee on family protection and children's rights, has asked the Prosecutor General's Office to check a camp in Tatarstan where a 12-year-old girl may have been infected before dying of meningococcal infection in Bugulma. The request was reported by RIA Novosti.

In her appeal to Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan, Chemeris asked for a comprehensive check of the camp's compliance with laws on sanitary and epidemiological well-being, health protection and the rights of minors. The girl went to the camp's medical point on 1 November and was hospitalised the next day. She died at 17:15 on 2 November. The preliminary diagnosis is fulminant meningococcal infection. The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case.

Tatarstan's Minister of Youth Affairs, Azat Kadyrov, is personally monitoring the situation. A hotline on child vaccination against meningococcal infection has been opened at the Bugulma Central District Hospital. Eight people, six children and two adults, remain under observation in stable condition.