translated from Spanish: They investigate poisoning of 17 high school students; they found cocaine in sample

Chilpancingo.-the State health secretariat and the Office of the Attorney-General have altogether a sanitary fence in relation to intoxication presenting students from high school “Emperor Cuauhtémoc”, of the municipality of Ometepec, to perform epidemiological, clinical studies and investigations. The Secretary of health Carlos of the Peña Pintos, reported that Thursday and Friday of last week there were 17 cases of apparent food poisoning, and the day Monday 19 cases, two men and mostly women. He said that samples of urine for a comprehensive analysis has been taken.

Health authorities and the General Public Prosecutor of Guerrero have found signs of addictive substances in the school bathrooms. | Pixabay of the Pintos Peña said that according to the information obtained, inside the bathroom of the school was detected a smell of cinnamon, which has forced to delve into research, since usually this scent turns out to be by inhalants than co ntienen toluene (pleasant-smelling aromatic hydrocarbon), and that may be mixed with some other addictive substances as different drugs.

The State health laboratory studies on food were negative, which led to carry out a new collection of urine among students and that according to the Office of the Attorney-General studies performed, one of the samples resulted positive for cocaine. In this sense, we will work in conjunction with the Ministry of education of Guerrero, to build a containment strategy in terms of the consumption of addictive substances, with the participation of the parents and civil society organisations as centres of Integration Juvenil.Las Secretaries of health, education of the Government of the State and the Attorney General, will continue in a coordinated manner the work health and research, with the purpose of offering conclusions on the subject of jurisdiction of both instances.

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