Panel to consider revision of A-bomb Survivors Relief Law to be established
Jan. 18, 2010
by Kohei Okata, Staff Writer
On January 15, regarding the relaxation of the A-bomb disease certification criteria, Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Akira Nagatsuma revealed his idea of setting up a panel in the near future in order to consider proposals to revise the A-bomb Survivors Relief Law that will fundamentally review the A-bomb disease certification system.
At a news conference within the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), Mr. Nagatsuma stressed his policy of aiming to improve the system itself not by relaxing the current certification criteria but by revising the law. He said, "We need to set up a forum where an amendment of the law, a prerequisite for the revision, will be considered." In regard to the timing, he commented, "Considering the advanced age of A-bomb survivors, it should not be a subject for the distant future."
According to the MHLW department in charge of this matter, the formation and members of the panel have not yet been decided.
(Originally published on January 16, 2010)
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On January 15, regarding the relaxation of the A-bomb disease certification criteria, Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Akira Nagatsuma revealed his idea of setting up a panel in the near future in order to consider proposals to revise the A-bomb Survivors Relief Law that will fundamentally review the A-bomb disease certification system.
At a news conference within the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), Mr. Nagatsuma stressed his policy of aiming to improve the system itself not by relaxing the current certification criteria but by revising the law. He said, "We need to set up a forum where an amendment of the law, a prerequisite for the revision, will be considered." In regard to the timing, he commented, "Considering the advanced age of A-bomb survivors, it should not be a subject for the distant future."
According to the MHLW department in charge of this matter, the formation and members of the panel have not yet been decided.
(Originally published on January 16, 2010)
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