__Stepan Dnistrian

__Chief state health officer

__Today regional sanitary-epidemiological service consists of 17 sanitary-epidemiological stations of rural districts, one municipal, one regional and one disinfection station, where over 1300 specialists work and carry out state sanitary-epidemiological supervision over more than 17 000 objects under control.

__To improve material and technical base and adjust the joint work with the organs of power and concerned services from 1999 to 2002 the travelling colleges of regional sanitary-epidemiological service were conducted on the base of each sanitary-epidemiological station; in 2006 this experiment was resumed.

__On initiative of sanitary-epidemiological service about 20 decisions, orders, instructions, programs of regional state administration and regional rada directed on the solution of the most difficult questions of the sanitary-epidemic provision of population are annually made at the regional level.

__Cooperation with the research workers of Ternopil I. Horbachevskyi State Medical University is fruitful enough. Together with the research workers they published the textbook "General hygiene with the bases of ecology", a lot of scientific works, methodical guideline and information articles in different branch scientific editions.

__13 Fedkovycha Street

__Ternopil 46008

__tel.: (0352) 52-21-84,

__fax: (0352) 52-14-25

__E-mail: teroblses@mail.te.ua