Water poisoning of over a thousand and 500 citizens from Decani, the prosecution today provides new details

The conference will be held at 12:00. We remember that a thousand and 500 citizens of Decani and surrounding villages were forced to seek medical assistance at the QKMF “Adem Ukharay” in this municipality due to the water poisoning of the drink.

The poisoning of thousands of citizens caused this municipality on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 to declare emergency situations.

The announcement of the state of emergency has made itself the mayor of the municipality, the Ramosaj Union, adding that the state of emergency applies to the entire municipality territory.

Shortly after increasing the number of people seeking medical help as a result of poisoning, the Decani Community had also decided that the water supply in this municipality would not be used for drink.

From the analysis conducted by the IKSHPK, after receiving water samples, several coliform and E.col bacteria, as well as samples sent for testing abroad, have revealed that patients are infected with two types of E. Cole and a virus called Norvirus.

After increasing the number of people seeking treatment at the Main Centre of Family Medicine in Decani, doubts had been raised about deliberate water poisoning.

These claims were immediately investigated by Pec's Founding Prosecutor. On July 16th of this year, at the order of Pec's Constitutional Prosecutor, a person working for the Kosovo Forest Agency was arrested in Decani.

He had been arrested under suspicion that he had stopped security cameras since May. But after 48 hours of maintenance, he was released in regular procedure. For allegations of poisoning, the prosecution has interviewed other people.

In the first days following the appearance of health problems of more than 1,500 citizens, the Decani Municipal Assembly had initiated the procedure for establishing a new municipal enterprise.

The goal was to cut Decani's water supply from the regional company K.R.U. Hydrodrin, as this company was accused of poor and irresponsible management of the water supply network in this municipality.

This decision is due to mismanagement of the water pipeline network in the Decani municipality from “The K.R.U., which has to do with technical construction aspects from access to source, non-standard water reservoirs, water wells, water grids to illegal locks and the lack of clocks for registration of water spending”, was said in the decision of July 19, 2021, of the Decani Municipal Framework.

According to this decision, all these shortcomings had resulted in damage to the quality of water, which has created the situation of infection and water poisoning in the Decani municipality of over two thousand citizens.