Peru-Cajamarca: Police are investigating causes of mass poisoning of schoolchildren

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Cajamarca: Police are investigating causes of mass poisoning of schoolchildren
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 | 4:23 pm

RPP / Luis Asencio
The students were poisoned after consuming food Pronaa through school lunches.
DIVINCRI staff moved to the area to take samples of food and determine what caused the poisoning.
Agents of the Criminal Investigation Division moved to the village of Redondo, Cajabamba province, to take samples of food delivered to minors.Accidental mixing of food with pesticide poisoned children | RPPIncrease to three children who died after eating food Pronaa | RPP
The National Police investigating the causes of the mass poisoning of the students in the IE No. 83211 of the village of Redondo, district Cachachi, Cajabamba province (Cajamarca), after consumption of foods that provide the National Food Assistance Program (Pronaa) . A group of soldiers of the Division of Criminal Investigation (DIVINCRI) moved to the area to take samples of food and determine what caused the poisoning. Similarly, the representative of the Attorney General also addressed the place , which immobilized the kitchen area of the campus, so do not miss any evidence. Read more news from the region Cajamarca

 

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Headmaster in Cajamarca: "The minister is wrong"

Hermenegildo Castro said in the village of Redondo, in Cajabamba, not use insecticides, says Aida Garcia Naranjo , head of Women

Friday September 23, 2011 - 5:39 pm

(Canal N)
Contrary to the statements of the Minister of Women, Aida Garcia Naranjo , was the headmaster of the village 82311 Redondo, in the district of Cachachi in Cajabamba, Cajamarca , where children who died were poisoned by eating the Pronaa .

As recalled, Naranjo Garcia had said that the food is prepared in a bucket where pesticide had been dumped before , blaming the mothers of families.

However, the teacher Hermenegildo Castro Estrada said that the area does not use insecticides because foods are grown naturally. He also said that the vessels are only used in school and do not lend themselves to be carried elsewhere.

"The minister, in this sense is a little wrong, because in the first place, do not use insecticides. Height is an area which produces food all natural. So I think it is wrong and denies those little things, "said Castro Estrada in dialogue with Canal N.

 

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Peru News ? Society ? Confirmed: poison killed children
September 28, 2011
Lethal. Attorney General reveals that consuming small food mixed with insecticide

Jos? Pel?ez Bardales revealed that the carbamate insecticide residues found in the bodies of three children, in considerable quantities.
Edgar Toro and Claudia Jara.
What at first was taken as an unreasonable and hasty statement of the Minister for Women, Aida Garcia Naranjo, turned out to be true. After performing the autopsy, and studies on the bodies of three children poisoned after ingesting the rice with peas of the National Food Assistance Program (Pronaa) in Cajamarca, the Attorney General, Jos? Pel?ez Bardales, confirmed yesterday that in Indeed, the children ate foods that were mixed with an insecticide called carbamate.
"We analyzed the viscera, ie the organic content of the bodies of children who have been sent for analysis, and determined the kind of input that causes chemical poisoning", he said.
He explained that this terrible event is still under investigation and that the results of the analysis will be made available to the authorities and confronted to determine where the contamination originated.
"We already have the results of the analysis. (...) That will be confronted with the instruments that could have been used and the food that was inside the bags. For example, lentils, rice and I ate that day some fish, "he said.
It was not only waste
Be investigated further indicated that the charges against the former head of Dante Mendoza Pronaa for allegedly trying to bribe with 150 new soles to each of the parents of dead children for not reporting that the food program.
Initially, the Minister Garcia said that mothers in charge of cooking lunch had the deadly containers thoroughly washed and that may have traces of insecticides in the utensils. This was denied by Maria Roncal, cook and grandmother of one of the victims. But what is now contends that the prosecutor could not be just waste, but "considerable amounts of insecticide."
"It had to be a strong dose"
In this regard, Dr. Jesus Bonilla, president of the National Medical Association, Ministry of Health (ANMMS) argues that the poison is used by farmers to kill insect pests, but also to produce poisons such as rat poison.
"It is very rare and unlikely to waste just because they are dead. It had to be strong dose. The time of death depends on the time it takes each person to metabolize the poison, "he said.
Questioning continues
So far, 6-Fujimori lawmakers have signed the motion for interpellation against the minister Garcia, which was promoted by the president of the Health Committee, Second Tapia, and Joaquin Ramirez Cajamarca legislator.
Tapia questioned the minister has not even traveled to the village of Redondo, in the district of Cachachi to know the status of victims.
"We were not given or for burial"
1] Irma Elsa Bautista Roncal (22), mother of Darwin Eduard Bautista Gamboa (9), one of the little dead, argues that the authorities do not help pay the funeral expenses of children, as the three were buried together in the same grave.
2] "We live on the farm, the authorities have brought no help, even for burial, only journalists and congressmen came to find out what really happened with the peas, rice and tuna just received this year," said the humble woman.
3] In his poverty no longer accept claims that the Pronaa food because of it because she lost her son. "My child was very funny. From little boy wanted to be an engineer, much liked to study, do homework, "he recalls.

 

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September 29, 2011
In Cajamarca
Pronaa kept food with insecticide

Were used to fumigate the warehouse. No one knows how it mixed with food.
More than a week after the untimely death occurred three children as a result of eating food with pesticides, new elements come to light regarding the case.
In the main store Pronaa in Cajamarca, where they have over a thousand tons of food, are also stored pesticides. These products were used for the fumigation of the premises. But yet to be determined if it is mixed with food and caused the damage already known.
Deposits are sprayed with the rodenticide Racumin, as reflected in one of the boards within the entity. However, this was denied by the Acting Chief Pronaa zonal, Miguel Abanto Chavez, who said he only used one type of gas