August 1, schoolboy, because of the pandemic flu forbidden to fly by organized groups in England. Operation of travel agencies, specializing in language courses, cultural exchange and children's group tourism, with an eye on the authorities stopped the sanitary inspector of Moscow Nikolai Filatov.
In Moscow Rospotrebnadzor listened to the head of a federal agency, Gennady Onishchenko and because of influenza A/H1N1 have banned travel of children in the UK. On the impossibility of removal of organized groups of children in England said in the order of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the city Nikolai Filatov, released Tuesday at the site office.
According to official World Health Organization, the largest number of diseases registered in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Britain, Chile, Argentina, Australia, Thailand, China (Hong Kong) and Japan. In the UK, only a week (from 20 to 27 July) registered 50 thousand cases of swine flu, it is specified in the document.
Filatov requires managers of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs engaged in tourism activities "ban until further notice in August 2009, export of organized groups of children in the UK, to refrain from organizing business and tourist travel, cultural exchange and training programs in the country where the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza detected. In addition, they must provide information to citizens planning to travel to underprivileged Influenza countries about a possible risk of infection, flu symptoms and measures of personal prophylaxis.
Cause actual interruption of travel agencies was an analysis of the sanitary-epidemiological situation, in which it was established in Moscow over the past two weeks, "increased the number of hospitalized patients with suspected disease of high pathogenic flu H1N1, including persons from the UK, among them children aged three to 18 years, who were on vacation or studying in the composition organized groups. " When the ban on "special order" can be removed - is unknown.
Filatov also suggested that the prefects of administrative districts of Moscow to take personal control over the execution of an action plan to prepare for an influenza pandemic and the need to ensure that meetings of the operational headquarters at least once a week to review the stock availability of drugs in clinics and pharmacies.
From the Chairman of the Tourism Committee of Moscow Grigory Antyufeyev required to provide a Rospotrebnadzor city lists of organized groups Children traveling outside of Moscow, with addresses and mobile phones. Chief editors of newspapers and television stations are requested to report cases of swine flu as long as the Federal Service will not give the media the results of their laboratory studies.
Prescription main sanvracha Moscow is mandatory for travel agents, for tourists - recommendation, explained in the Federal Tourism Agency (Rosturizm).
«Agencies are required to fulfill an order chief sanitary doctor, and make adjustments in their careers," - explained to Interfax Deputy Head of Federal Agency for Tourism Eugene Pisarevsky. Towards tourists, he added, the prescription is a recommendation. "They can decide to drive them abroad or not, to limit their departure is not the responsibility of health authorities", - said Pisarevsky.
As previously explained to Gazeta.ru chairman of the Duma Committee under the legislation, Pavel Krasheninnikov, home leave travel is no indication Rospotrebnadzor can not. "Such a document can not limit the constitutional right of citizens to free movement. The ban may be imposed only in the case of the introduction of emergency in connection with the swine flu epidemic. For this case we have a special law, where all procedures are clearly spelled out, "- said Krasheninnikov.
In the current situation, travel agencies must provide a tourist who is going on holiday abroad, complete and reliable information about the trip, said a spokesman Rostourism. According to him, taking into account the spread in the world of influenza virus A/H1N1 this information in the form of leaflets, manuals, etc., must contain information about the dangers with which the consumer may face in the journey of health and sanitary regulations in the country stay.
Tour operators and travel agents are also required to provide high quality travel medical insurance for the necessary risks specific to travel and the state sanitary-epidemiological situation in the host country. If necessary, tourists are encouraged to preventive health measures. At the time of travel for tourists should be with a medical kit formed in accordance with the recommendations of Rospotrebnadzor, but in Russia there is not such.
Spokesman for the Russian Union of Travel Industry (PCT) Irina Tyurina said to Gazeta.ru that the union will demand that Rostourism or the Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Affairs to explain the decision of Rospotrebnadzor, which, according to Tyurina, "there are many unclear points».
"As we have explained, the decision required for travel agencies and is a recommendation for the tourist - she said. - But it is not clear how it will act. " In particular, as noted by Turina, the document Rospotrebnadzor travel companies should arrange medical examination of children returning from dangerous areas. "Why and how? Why not Rospotrebnadzor, not the Ministry of Health? When these children arrive in Moscow, a contract with them at travel agencies have already expired and it no longer bears any responsibility for them "- explained Tyurin. Both physically prohibit cross border organized groups - for tour operators also remains a mystery.
In addition, according to its information, services of tour agencies use only 30% of the population away. " Secondly, in August, orders to travel to study abroad have already been formed. "I know that the recent boom was a group of children in the UK, but the plane was half empty", - says Turin. She also noted that the PCT recommends charging customers a receipt, in which he indicates that he knows - the world's raging pandemic flu. Such a document must be taken with tourists, according to Tyurina, in whatever foreign country he went. By law, tour operators must also issue a reminder to tourists of swine flu, which would have talked about the precautions. "But such sights have Rosobrnadzor does not exist, so it is unclear what papers we need to give clients" - she said.
Recall that the initiator of the ban trips organized groups of children in the UK has become the main state sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko. Studying foreign languages