Olga Bobyleva and Vitaliy Moskalenko

Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine Olga Babileva and Minister of Health Vitalyi Moskalenko show the map of suffered area in Pervomayskyi region, Nikolaevskaya oblast on the press-conference in the Kyiv's Ministry of Health Office, on Monday, August 28, 2000. According to them, the probable reason of the toxic dermatitis outburst in the Nikolaevska Oblast - is the pollution of the region by the components of missile fuel, which occurred in the air and underground waters in the course of diggings of the burnt fuel. Villages Chausovo-1, Michurino and Pidgurie are also not far from the Missile Station PC-24. At present solid-fuel missiles are installed on the territory of the station, till 1978 - liquid-fuel ones. Condition for Monday, August 28, 2000 is as follows: 331 dweller of the Pervomaiskyi region, including 175 children are ill. Photo by Alexander Sinitsa/ UNIAN