'Everyone here associates death with the mining': the Kyrgyz town sitting on nuclear waste
by David Trilling in Mailuu-Suu for EurasiaNet, part from on (#G8BE)
Residents of Mailuu-Suu, one of the most polluted places on the planet, complain that officials are doing little to protect them from health hazards. EurasiaNet reports
On the ground floor of Mailuu-Suu's central hospital, pharmacist Ainagul Parpibaeva says she's had enough.
"We're full of illness. Many people have cancer, leukaemia. I think this is because of the uranium, but the government never tells us anything," she says. People continuously come to her complaining of the same symptoms over and over, "like children who are nauseous and vomit", she explains.
