Hiroshima & Nagasaki
70 years on, survivors and their families still gravely affected
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Red Cross hospitals still treating thousands of atomic bomb survivors
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)
See also:
Section on Nuclear weapons
Key conference on curbing spread of nuclear weapons ends in failure, interview with Lou Maresca senior legal advisor in the ICRC's arms Unit
Nuclear weapons: Ending a threat to humanity, speech given by Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, to the diplomatic community in Geneva.
The Hiroshima disaster – a doctor's account, extracts from the journal written by the ICRC's Dr. Marcel Junod, the first foreign doctor to reach Hiroshima after the atom bomb attack on 6 August 1945, and to treat some of the victims.
Archives: report written on 1945 by an ICRC delegate in Japan and photos
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