Hiroshima & Nagasaki

70 years on, survivors and their families still gravely affected

 

 

2.5 million
outpatient visits by atomic bomb survivors and 2.6 million admissions of survivors as inpatients in Hiroshima and Nagasaki hospitals since they've been run by the Japanese Red Cross Society (59 years for Hiroshima and 43 years for Nagasaki)
4,657
survivors were treated at the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivors Hospital and 6,030 at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Hospital (March 2014 to March 2015)
63%
of in-hospital deaths of atomic bomb survivors in the Hiroshima Red Cross Atomic Bomb Survivors Hospital and 56% in the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Hospital were attributed to cancers (March 2013 to March 2014)