Chief doctor denies Astana meningitis outbreak

Suspected meningitis that has forced more than a hundred people into hospital beds in Astana, was the main topic of the briefing on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Chief sanitary doctor of the capital Zhandarbek Bekshin, who is the Acting Chairman of the Agency for Consumer Protection of Kazakhstan, had to answer a barrage of questions from the journalists, Tengrinews reports.

According to the journalists, parents of some of the sick children approached them to inform about lack of space in the city's  infectious diseases hospital. They said that hospital was so full that it had to line up beds in the corridors. However Bekshin denied this. “This is absolutely not true. (...) There are no hospital bed is the corridors. As of today, we have 80 laboratory-confirmed cases [this is the number of children in the infectious diseases hospital in Astana]," he said adding that there were 160 beds in the children's infectious diseases hospital.

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