Some of the common diseases treated are breast cancer, cataracts,
and leukemia.
‘Come 80 patients
die annually, or about 50 per-
cent of the hospital's capacity.
Dr.
Chigeto told the Committee that there is a difference between
A-vomd and regular patients.
They feel different in that they are
more uneasy and uncertain about their futures.
explained,
is doubled tnat of those who may think that a regular disease
may have’ been caused by the A-bomb.
ing, according to the doctor.
for them.
‘his uneasiness, he
all survivors there have this
feel-
Many who survived have no one to care
"It is a very uneasy feeling’, ne said.
"If patients re-
cover", he related, "they can go home, but may have to come back again.”
‘the doctor then took the Committee members on a tour of the hospital
where they saw many survivors, some of them still showed the scars from
the burns they suffered nearly thirty years
ago.
NAGASAKI TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AFTER
The Committee arrived by train in Nagasaki on the evening of June 26,
1972, and that evening held a brief meeting with city officials to plan
a schedule.
The next morning the members met with the Honorable Soichi
Urabe, Yeputy Mayor of the city of Nagasaki.
conference was held.
After that, a brief press
whe Committee then visited facilities similar to
the ones visited in Hiroshima;
for the sake of brevity, only that infor-
mation which differs from what has already been related will be included.
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