Chinese Health Agency Faked Reports to Hide Mass Poisoning in Kindergarten

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An investigation conducted by the government of Gansu province in China found that hospitals in the city of Tianshui and officials at the Gansu Center for Disease Control and Prevention falsified medical reports to conceal lead poisoning in over 200 kindergarten children.

The case of Heshi Peixin Kindergarten in Tianshui has horrified and outraged people across China. When hundreds of students became ill in March, local hospitals claimed they could find no common cause – but when parents took their children to hospitals outside the province, they quickly discovered the children had huge amounts of lead in their systems.

Investigators discovered the potentially life-threatening lead poisoning was caused by school administrators ordering their chefs to slather the food with paint so it would look better in promotional photos and videos. The chefs used pigments purchased online that were clearly labeled as toxic. Some of the sick children ingested over 2,000 times the maximum safe level of lead.

Police raided the kindergarten and arrested eight staff members soon after the story broke, but the secondary scandal is that so many officials evidently colluded to conceal the extent and seriousness of the children’s lead-induced illnesses.

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/07/ ... dergarten/