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Inadequate medical screening of Fukushima evacuees, especially children

Red Cross Team said “We were told by headquarters not to provide medical care for those exposed to radiation” after 3/11 –Hospital Worker  July 28th, 2012   By ENENews
Title: What Really Happened in Fukushima A Report From a Medical Care Provider Source: FukushimaVoice  

What Really Happened in Fukushima A Report From a Medical Care Provider Part 2, December 22, 2011
Please let me explain about what happened immediately after the earthquake.
On March 11, 2011, we began to have more and more evacuees from Futaba-machi.

We accepted both inpatients and outpatients without any manual or instruction for medical care for radiation exposure. However, Fukushima University Medical School Hospital only accepted the seriously injured (essentially refusing to accept evacuees) and the Red Cross medical team said “we were told by the headquarters not to provide medical care for those exposed to radiation.”

They stayed for three days, but the Red Cross medical team went to another prefecture without seeing any patients.

More and more evacuees were coming in. There was a talk of making this hospital a screening center in order to provide adequate screening examinations, but it was stopped by Fukushima University Medical School.

By the way, what was called screening examination was contamination examination of body surface by gamma survey meters.

Incidentally there is something important I would like to add. There was a “thyroid examination” of children from Iitate-mura and Kawamata-machi at the end of March, 2011, but it was just like this screening examination. Of course there was nothing abnormal found. The children had taken a shower and changed their clothes beforehand.

July 29, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Fukushima 2012