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
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