19 students in Yueqing, Wenzhou, had sudden nosebleeds. There are 36 sewage plants around them.
Wenzhou Yueqing 19 primary school students sudden nosebleeds: School newly renovated, surrounded by 36 sewage factories
Xinhua Wenzhou September 8 (reporter Zhang Heping) Wenzhou Yueqing at the beginning of a primary school have 19 students suddenly nosebleeds, some students appear headache, chest tightness and other symptoms, September 6 school was forced to suspend classes. This news has become a hot spot on the network recently, Xinhua News Agency reporter conducted an investigation to understand.
The incident primary school is Yueqing City North Baixiang Town No. 9 Primary school, located in North Baixiang town Rock community, the school has more than 1200 schools and more than 60 staff.
According to the reporter, since September 4, the school has 19 students sudden nosebleeds, some of which are also accompanied by vomiting, headache, chest tightness and other symptoms. A parent said that his daughter in the school to read the second grade, September 5 at 10 o 'clock, is on the Chinese class of children suddenly nosebleeds, after being rushed to the local hospital for examination. The hospital did not find a direct cause after a brief treatment of some students' illness, while some parents and local people questioned the bad environment in the school and its surroundings.
This incident aroused the attention of Wenzhou and Yueqing governments, education and environmental protection departments. On the afternoon of the 5th, Yueqing environmental protection department organized law enforcement personnel to investigate the source of pollution inside and outside the school.
Law enforcement officials found that there are nearly 36 chemical, heat treatment, electroplating, casting, spray injection molding and other enterprises and underground workshops within 1 kilometer of the school, of which 28 enterprises have not been approved by the environmental protection department, 2 enterprises have been approved but waste gas treatment has not reached the standard, 6 families of illegal unlicensed workshops.
Law enforcement officers also found that the school has just been put into use, teaching desks and chairs and some walls are newly painted, and the plastic runway is also new. In the eastern corner of the school, an infrastructure is still being painted and tarred.
Law enforcement officers took gas samples at nine points inside and outside the school and sent them to testing agencies for testing. However, some parents questioned the results: when the law enforcement officers sampled, the six underground workshops had been shut down by the government, some nearby enterprises had stopped production when they heard the wind, and the painting and asphalt construction in the school had also stopped. The test results were difficult to reflect the real situation.
Regarding the students' imminent class problem, Yueqing education department and North Baixiang Town negotiated and made a decision, on September 9, the students of the whole school were arranged to study in the old community. But some parents put forward that the old campus is dangerous and unsafe. The relevant leaders of North Baixiang town confirmed that the old campus does have unsafe buildings, with a "C" level. It is reported that the local government and education department told reporters to take reinforcement and build temporary board houses to solve the problem.
Late at night on September 7, Yueqing Municipal government said that Yueqing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau is entrusting Wenzhou municipal level professional testing institutions to continuously monitor the atmospheric environment inside and around the school, and will work with North Baixiang Town to dismantle sewage enterprises involved in illegal buildings around the school, and to power off water and stop production of sewage enterprises without environmental approval. And crack down on illegal discharge according to law.