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Children from Chernobyl treated in UK halved after Government began charging them to enter country

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2645069/Number-ill-children-Chernobyl-treated-UK-halved-Government-began-charging-enter-country.html

  • 4,000 children have had annual month-long trips since 1986
  • But charities can not afford the new £86-per-child charge imposed
  • The trips, with dentist and optician visits, can add two years to their lives
Published: 01:09 GMT, 1 June 2014

Thousands of ill children from Chernobyl who have been visiting Britain for life-prolonging care will no longer be able to – after the Government started charging them to enter the country.

Since 1986, when the region suffered the world’s worst nuclear disaster, charities have funded annual month-long trips for more than 4,000 children to the UK.

While here they receive vitamins and see dentists and opticians.

The trips can add two years to the lives of Ukrainian and Belrussian youngsters with cancer.But charities have had to halve the number they help after the Government introduced the £86 payment in a bid to claw back about £170,000 a year.

Conservative MP Craig Whitaker is lobbying the Chancellor to waive the fee.

He said: ‘We used to be a host family and I know first-hand what effect a month’s respite has on children who have been through so much tragedy.’

Screenshot from 2014-06-01 08:11:16

The people of Ukraine (Kiev pictured) and Belarus are still mourning the victims of the world’s worst nuclear disaster which left thousands of children disabled or ill for life

June 1, 2014 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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  1. Reblogged this on Radiation Free Lakeland and commented:
    This is a deliberate cynical and nasty move to curtail visits. The last thing our pro nukiller government want is for people to be reminded of the real life consequences of their nuclear fanaticism.

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