Gym users appeal for action over ‘dirty’ pool
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MEMBERS of a sports club in Pujiang, Minhang District are demanding refunds of their annual fees after claiming they were made sick by the water in its swimming pool.
Journalists from the Shanghai Morning Post visited the gym, which was formerly affiliated to King Sport, after receiving a complaint from one of the users.
The woman, surnamed Jin, told the newspaper that her 11-year-old son developed a rash after using the pool. A doctor at Huashan Hospital told her that the irritation might have been caused by swimming in unclean water.
The mother said she paid 600 yuan (US$97.50) for a pass to use the pool and at first had no complaints. But after a couple of weeks, she became aware of a bad smell in the water and noticed it had become murky.
In late July, the pool was closed for two days by hygiene and sanitation inspectors in Minhang due to the water quality problem, Jin was quoted as saying.
When it reopened, her son used it and soon after developed a rash, the report said.
Checkered past
The Minhang Health Bureau said the gym’s operators did not have a license for the pool, and had been fined and forced to close it several times before, the newspaper reported.
It did not explain, however, why the pool had also been allowed to reopen several times.
When reporters visited the gym, they were told by staff that it was temporarily closed due to a power failure.
Workers said also that they were unauthorized to issue refunds of membership fees, and claimed their boss was unavailable to discuss the matter.
King Sport was cited as saying that although it had once granted the gym permission to use its name, the agreement had since expired.
The Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administrative Bureau said it has received 759 complaints about King Sport this year. The company was unavailable for comment yesterday.
A survey released by the Shanghai health authority at the end of last month said that the water in 18 public swimming pools across the city had been found to contain excessive levels of bacteria, dirt and urea.
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