TOKYO — Hundreds of evacuees from the area around Japan's stricken
nuclear power plant are being turned away by hospitals and temporary
evacuation centers because of fear they may be carrying radiation, a
British newspaper reported.
The Daily Telegraph said that officials were demanding that evacuees
provide certificates proving they have not been exposed to
contamination.
The newspaper said a clinic in Fukushima City refused treatment to an
8-year-old girl for a skin rash. Her family was living in a shelter
after abandoning their home in Minamisoma, 18 miles from the nuclear
plant.
The newspaper noted that the prejudice was similar to the ostracism
that survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
1945 experienced.
"This is a knee-jerk reaction based on the fear that these people are
going to harm you," Dr. Robert Gale, a hematologist at Imperial
College, London, told the Daily Telegraph. He is advising the Japanese
government on health issues.
"If someone has been contaminated externally, such as on their shoes
or clothes, then precautions can be taken, such as by removing those
garments to stop the contamination from getting into a hospital," he
added. "That is very easy to do, but unfortunately I'm not surprised
this sort of thing is happening."
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