Fukushima - Very Good News! – An Independent Health Clinic Opened in Fukushima-city on Dec. 1, 2012ふくしま共同診療所 Fukushima Collaborative Clinic
This clinic is an independent health clinic supported by the donation
from citizens. There are Internal
medicine and ionizing radiation depts.
The doctors understand the risk of internal exposure to ionizing
radiation and low dose level of .ionizing radiation. Thyroid Echo examination and its test result
are available.
Let Fukushima Children Have a Future Build Clinics for
Fukushima Children
We have to protect children from radiation. Setting
up clinics in Fukushima is crucial for children to survive.
The accident of Fukushima nuclear plants spread tremendous
amount of caesium out to the air which was
equivalent to 168 times the caesium released by the atomic bomb dropped on
Hiroshima in 1945. The damage caused by this accident could far exceed the
severity of the Chernobyl accident..
120,000 people were forced to evacuate from their home
town, and 60,000 left their home by their own decision even though they would
lose all of the provisions of their lives.
In reality, there are still 360,000 children in Fukushima
Prefecture who have remained behind, and 75% of the lands upon which these
children run and play every day have been identified as having heavy
contamination of radiation. They also found caesium in the urine of children
who evacuated urgently at the time of the crisis.
Radiation contamination can cause serious disease. Children
therefore should be removed from the area immediately. However, in reality,
there are many people who cannot afford moving out of their homes without
financial help or governmental assistance, and they have demanded help from the
government. The government does not show willingness to help. Moreover, the
special advisor for health care of victims who was hired by the prefectural
government has tried to convince people that the contamination level was still
very safe, and has falsified the scale of the disaster as small as possible by
hiding the sickness of the children.
A mother’s group from Fukushima has been sitting in occupation
tents at different ministries offices in Tokyo, and calling for the government
to protect their children’s future. This was the beginning of this movement,
and it inspired 60,000 people to join the demonstration against nuclear plants
in Tokyo on September 19, 2011. It is now spreading over many different places
in the world.
Reliable clinics are urgently wanted in
Fukushima!
Scoring the surface of the contaminated soil is not enough
to secure their safety, and the children have been continuously contaminated
every day for a year by now. There is anxiety that some children starting to
show symptoms of sickness. Many mothers are wondering whether their children’s
symptoms are caused of the radiation, but cannot find trustworthy doctors who
will truly listens to the concern of the victims. It is a crucial issue in
Fukushima that there are no doctors whom people rely on. Most doctors in
general hospitals and clinics in cities refuse to admit, and even doubt, that
there is a correlation between these symptoms of sickness and radiation in any
cases. In the case of Chernobyl, there are reports of thyroid-related disease, hormonal disorder, anemia, headache,
heart-related disease, lung conditions, low immune system and cancers.
Hiroshima victims of the atomic bomb obtained peace
of minds because of a clinic they could rely on, but they had to set it up by
themselves. They also spent
tremendous effort to fight against the Japanese government over injustice in
treatments.
Kyodo Clinic in Hiroshima-city is an excellent model
of this type of clinic. In 1970’s, leukaemia was
found among the second generation of the atomic bomb victims. Those people who
suffered leukemia could not find a doctor who would admit the correlation
between their leukemia and the radiation and give special treatments.
They therefore had to
set up a clinic themselves and found a doctor who was willing to fight against
the government. Kenzabro Oue(Novel prize
winner) praised the clinic and said “ It was the integration of education and people’s
commitment”
Children in Fukushima urgently need to set up clinics so
that they can invite doctors willing to work with this issue from different
places outside of Fukushima.
They need a constant help from people to maintain
their work. If you would like to send
some money:
Paypal
Account : clinicfukushima@yahoo.co.jp
Account
Holder : WATANABE Kaoru
Secretary
Treasurer, Fund-raising Committee for Fukushima Clinic
Fund-raising Committee For Fukushima Clinic
84 Taira Hobaracho, Datee, Fukushima 960-0662 Japan
http://www.clinic-fukushima.jp info@clinic-fukushima.jp
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