Re: journal donations

["Björn Cedervall" <bjorn_cedervall@hotmail.com>]

When I visited the Radiation Oncolgy Dept. at the central cancer 
hospital in Almaty (capitol by that time), Kazakhstan two years ago, I 
learned that they hadn't received a single copy of any radiotherapy 
journal or radiation biology journal since the Soviet Union collapse in 
1991. Somebody tried to send them Radiat. Res. but they all disappeared 
in Moscow. Kazakhstan has more than 17 million people distributed over 
an area that is about five times larger than France. The tragedy of the 
Aral lake belongs to Kaz. The country is extremely poor - the new 
capitol (Akmola - northern part of the country -extremely cold winter 
time) has had gas stoves for years but lacked gas for at least a year 
around 1997. I saw a lot of bad details there, no warm water, dirt/earth 
floors, very few light bulbs working in the hospital corridors etc 
(please excuse this off topic expansion here). A direct contact with any 
remaining university institutions may be of value for sending your old 
copies of "Science" or whatever to these types of countries - there are 
after all - still scientists there who read English. It is not many 
years since (1993?) I heard that there was not a single copy of Radiat. 
Res. for instance in several central east European countries.

bjorn_cedervall@hotmail.com

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