Heshi Peixin kindergarten’s events are recounted through taped doors and silent chambers.
An almost unbelievable failure in a location where kids should have been protected, a massive scandal in a little community.
It is immediately apparent that practically everyone in the town of Maiji, in northwest China, knows someone who has been affected.
The entrance to the kindergarten is taped off
Police claim that workers at the private kindergarten had been adding paint powder to food in an apparent attempt to make it seem more appetizing after many toddlers were discovered to have elevated blood levels of lead.
According to local officials, 201 of the 251 youngsters required hospitalization, and 233 of them had unsafe levels.
Lead levels in two food samples that were confiscated were 2000 times higher than the permissible limit.
The principal and the kindergarten’s financial supporter are among the eight persons who have been taken into custody.
This town has a number of stores selling clothing and other items for infants and young children on one street. The principal and many of the impacted families were known to the ladies who work there.
They describe how upsetting it has been for the neighborhood.
With tears in her eyes, one woman mutters about how a neighbor’s child was discovered to have 38 times the typical amount of lead in her blood.
CCTV showed chefs adding the paint and preparing the artificially coloured food
This degree of lead poisoning may result in long-term harm to the central nervous system and brain.
The fact that the kindergarten and its employees are the only object of their ire is surprising.
Indeed, the principle is praised by many, who point to her considerable charitable activity and commitment to children.
They obviously believe that the system had flaws as well, even if Heshi Peixin may have had serious shortcomings.
