Families want answers after 45 people died following evacuation from Fukushima ...
26.04.11
OKUMA, Fukushima -- Nearly 45 people out of some 440 patients and workers at a hospital here are estimated to have died while or after being evacuated following the accident at the tsunami-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.
The Fukushima Prefectural Government is investigating why 90 patients were temporarily left behind at Futaba Hospital in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, following the disaster.
However, the national government had not assumed any situation in which medical institutions and nursing care facilities become unable to evacuate all their patients at the time of a serious natural disaster. Experts have expressed fear that a similar problem could occur in case of major disasters in the future.
Source: Mainichi Daily News