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07/08/17
CUBA HAS TREATED OVER 26,000 CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER VICTIMS
Cuba Has Treated Over 26,000
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Victims
Since 1990, Cuban medics
have treated over 26,000 victims of the 1986 nuclear disaster in
Chernobyl, Ukraine, scientific network Scielo reported in a recent
study.
The areas of treatment, according to Scielo, were primarily focused on dermatology, endocrinology and gastroenterology.
The report detailed
that 84 percent of the total number of patients treated were children
from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. The majority of people were treated in
1991, when Cuban medics attended to 1,415 patients.
Over 1,000 children received medical treatment annually from 1990 to 1995.
With its main
treatment area located on Tarara beach, east of Havana, the main
objective of the program was to provide comfortable lodging facilities
and an overall healthy environment, where patients could be treated and
partake in a rehabilitation plan.
Apart from medical facilities, the locale included schools, a cooking center, a theater, parks and recreation areas.
After 21 years of solidarity treatment, all free of charge, the medical program came to an end in 2011.
In the early hours of
April 26, 1986, a botched test at the nuclear plant in then-Soviet
Ukraine triggered a meltdown that spewed deadly clouds of atomic
material into the atmosphere, forcing the evacuation of tens of
thousands of people.
More than 600,000
Soviet civilian and military personnel were drafted from across the
country as liquidators to clean-up and contain the nuclear fallout.
Over 30 plant workers and firemen died in the immediate aftermath of the accident, most from acute radiation sickness.
Over the past three
decades, thousands more have succumbed to radiation-related illnesses
such as cancer, although the total death toll and long-term health
effects remain a subject of intense debate.
Data: 01.08.2017
Fonte: www.telesurtv.net
10/04/14
UKRAINIAN WOMEN THANK CUBA FOR MEDICAL ATTENTION TO CHERNOBYL CHILDREN
HAVANA, Cuba, April 8 (acn) The Association of Women for Genetic Reserve, a Ukrainian organization, handed over to the Cuban embassy in
the capital Kiev a letter expressing gratefulness for the medical
attention given to over 20 thousand children affected by the Chernobyl
nuclear accident.
Association member Lilia Piltiay stressed what he called the gesture
of a small country without precedents and with a strong international
humanitarian impact. Piltiay gave the letter to Cuban ambassador to
Ukraine Ernesto Senti in the presence of members of the Communist Youth
Organization of the former Soviet Union who organized the first
transfer of the children to Cuba in 1990.
Participants recalled the first flight to Cuba with 139 children in
March 1990, which was received by Revolution leader Fidel Castro at
Havana's International Airport.
Thousands of those kids are now young men who carry out their normal
lives and contribute to their society thanks to the supportive gesture
of Cuba, which for nearly 20 years offered medical attention to nearly
25 thousand children affected by the nuclear accident.
Data: 08.04.2014
Fonte: www.cubanews.ain.cu
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