Volodymyr Saldo, Acting Governor of the Kherson region, said that more than eight thousand people have been evacuated since the flooding of the region following the emergency at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. Wrote about him about it telegraph channel.
“Since the start of the rescue operation, there have been 8.1 thousand people, of whom 583 are children and 290 with reduced mobility,” he said.
According to him, more than 1.9 thousand people are in temporary accommodation centers.
110 people were taken to health institutions.
He also noted that the water was withdrawn in the Novokakhovsk urban district and the Aleshkinsky municipal district.
Former Ministry of Health of Kherson region knowledgeablethat the epidemiological situation in the region is stable, no cases of cholera and other dangerous infectious diseases were recorded after the flood due to the collapse of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. Head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Igor Kirillov declarationThat the flooding of the Kherson region lands risks creating foci of West Nile fever and other diseases.
Source: Gazeta
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