From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/21/2006 3:23 AM RIA Novosti Children still affected by "psycho-emotional stress" in Chechnya
21/02/2006 12:52 GROZNY, February 21 (RIA Novosti) - The situation with children affected by an unusual illness in Chechnya in December 2005 remains complicated, a deputy Chechen health minister said Tuesday.
"Up to 10 children need to be hospitalized and treated as a matter of urgency," Zaur Musluyev said. He added that 20 patients were still suffering from asthmatic fits and another 20 were under the constant supervision of doctors.
A total of 87 cases were registered in three Chechen districts in December 2005. A special government commission was charged with investigating the outbreak.
Musluyev said some 30 children and adults had been sent to medical institutions in the North Caucasus in late December 2005. "The condition of those who returned after treatment has deteriorated, as they started having hallucinations," he said.
Musluyev confirmed the earlier diagnosis of "pseudo-asthmatic syndrome caused by psycho-emotional stress."
A Moscow medical commission issued a final diagnosis in December, attributing the illness to psycho-emotional stress. Zurab Kikalidze, the deputy head of the well-known Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, said people in the war-torn republic had been living under constant stress in recent years.
"Mostly children and teenagers, primarily girls, have been affected by the disease," he said, calling it a psychological infection.
Kikalidze called for long-term measures to fight the illness. "A concept for the psychological and social rehabilitation of the entire population needs to be drawn up," he said.
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