History: Tomin Harada, physician for nuclear victims

["Mike Grissom" <mpg1@coastside.net>]

radsafe-rs,

The following was in the June 29, 1999 San Jose Mercury News:

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Tomin Harada,
physician for
nuclear victims

By Elaine Woo
Los Angeles Times

Dr. Tomin Harada, a Japanese surgeon who devoted his life to
mending the disfiguring injuries suffered by victims of the atomic
bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and promoting world
peace, died Friday. He was 87.

After the war, he set up a private practice in Hiroshima, where
more than 86,000 were killed and many were left mutilated and
scarred. He devoted nearly all of his professional attention to
the hibakusha (victims of the bomb), who had horrible raised
scars called keloids and strange, unidentifiable illnesses that
Japanese doctors lumped in a single category of "atomic
illness."

Dr. Harada operated on dozens of the bomb survivors at the
Atomic Bomb Hospital, which he headed for decades while also
running his own private hospital.

In 1957, Dr. Harada successfully pressed the Japanese
government to enact a law to provide medical treatment to
atomic bomb survivors.


Michael P. Grissom
Email:  mpg1@coastside.net



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