The number of poisoned patients in Karabudakhkent has risen to 35.
Twenty-seven children and eight adults with signs of intestinal infection were hospitalized in Karabudakhkent Hospital.
As reported by the Caucasian Knot, from April 2 to 4, 21 patients with signs of intestinal infection, including 14 children, were hospitalized in the Karabudakhkent District Hospital. On April 4, the number of hospitalizations increased to 25. Investigators have identified drinking water as the probable cause of the poisoning.
On April 4, Rospotrebnadzor announced emergency immunization in Dagestan due to flooding and the risk of a viral hepatitis A outbreak. Earlier, on March 28, the agency urged residents of Dagestan to drink only boiled or bottled water and not to use tap water without boiling it.
As of the morning of April 8, 35 patients with signs of gastroenteritis, including 27 children, are being treated at a hospital in Karabudakhkent after poisoning, the Dagestan Ministry of Health reported on its Telegram channel.
"The hospital has created all the necessary conditions for treatment in accordance with modern recommendations," the report noted.
Healthcare workers in the republic are conducting Immunization against viral hepatitis A, the Ministry of Health reported. "We remind you! Use only boiled or bottled water for drinking, cooking, infant formula, cleaning pacifiers and toys, rinsing your mouth and washing, and bathing babies," the publication states.
As a reminder, floods caused by heavy rains have been ongoing in the North Caucasus since the end of March, and they have become some of the most destructive in recent years. More than 6,200 people were affected by flooding in Dagestan.
Six people died as a result of the flooding in Dagestan. Five of them died in the village of Mamedkala in the Derbent district and its environs: a pregnant 17-year-old local resident, a 12-year-old child, a five-year-old girl and her grandmother, as well as 70-year-old Aminat Musayeva, who had been missing for three days. In the village of Kirki in the Kaytag District, a resident of a house destroyed by a landslide, Kistaman Mazanova, a local village council member, died.
Dagestan and Chechnya suffered the most from the disaster, according to the Caucasian Knot report "Spring Flooding in the North Caucasus - 2026".
The Caucasian Knot has compiled materials on flooding in the republics of the North Caucasus Federal District in the spring of 2026 on the thematic page "Flooding in the North Caucasus".