“Luck assisted us. It can’t happen a third time.”
The investigations continue to ascertain the responsibilities of theintoxication to Tavolucci swimming pool. The news, also due to the presence of 10 kindergarten children, bounced off the edge. The little ones – visited in pediatric clinics – are all well. Instead, they were more affected by the fumes 15 adults and one minorwho went to the Emergency Department mainly in the morning with respiratory symptoms and in some cases eye irritation.
They were promptly taken care of by ISS personnel, who contacted the reference poison control center. Patients have been all resigned throughout the day, with the exception of one person, still under observation in the semi-intensive department.
The Sports Secretary thanks both the staff of the facility “who intervened efficiently and quickly” as well as the ISS health workers and the judicial authority. Theodore Lonfernini is monitoring the situation: this morning he spoke with the head teacher to make sure that the children had returned to school and checked with the general director of the ISS the conditions of the patients who had resorted to treatment in the emergency room.
“They are comparing well and this comforts me. We are now following the investigative activity. Once that aspect has been clarified, it is logical that we will have to pay greater attention to the tools and material that have been used in our sports facilities”.
The Tavolucci swimming pool – already involved in the past from a similar episode -was placed under seizure. The alleged perpetrators – the Civil Police wrote yesterday – will be referred to the Judicial Authority with thecharge of culpable disaster. “They are facts that can have serious consequences, so I take this thing very seriously” – continues Lonfernini. “ Today luck assisted us, in 2015 the same. It cannot happen again in the most absolute way”.
In the video the interview with the Secretary of Sport, Teodoro Lonfernini