International cooperation in the field of elimination of health effects of the Chernobyl disaster
Author: V.V. Evseyenko
Reference: Журнал «Медицинские новости» (Medical news) 2006. – №3.
Keywords: Republican Scientific and Practical Centre of Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology, International Federation of the Red Cross
Abstract: Elimination of health effects of the Chernobyl disaster requires considerable effort on the part of the country, as a whole, as well as the scientific and practical institutions abroad.
Nearly 20 years after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the ecological situation in the country and the need to address health effects of long-term disaster require dynamic monitoring of the state of health in large numbers of people. In this regard, has been developed a long-term cooperation for the sake of a contribution to the project “Screening of the affected population in the international Chernobyl Program of the Red Cross.” Its plan formed diagnostic support outreach teams, which, in 2005, examined 15,754 people, including 1,070 children. Analysis of the diagnostic work-site teams, in recent years, has shown high efficiency of their activities, particularly in diagnosis of thyroid disease, including thyroid cancer.