Thursday, March 31, 2011

Japan nuclear crisis: evacuees turned away from shelters

Why help those most in need when you can shun them for having had the temerity to live in close proximity to the Fukashima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Instead hospitals and evacuation centers should further humiliate them just to make themselves feel better. So, for doctors in Japan: First Do No Harm is just a meaningless phrase given a lot of Lip Service

Hospitals and temporary refuges are demanding that evacuees provide them with certificates confirming that they have not been exposed to radiation before they are admitted.
The situation at the plant remains critical, with the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency yesterday that radioactive iodine-131 at more than 3,350 times permitted levels has been found in a sample of seawater taken from near the facility.
The water is the most highly contaminated sample taken from the sea and indicates that radiation from the core of one or more of the reactors, where fuel rods have partly melted, is leaking into the Pacific Ocean.

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