Staff from A-bomb Sufferers Welfare Center in South Korea visit Hiroshima to learn about support for A-bomb survivors
Nov. 29, 2016
by Gosuke Nagahisa, Staff Writer
On November 28, five South Korean staff members from the A-bomb Sufferers Welfare Center and the Korean Red Cross arrived in Hiroshima to study the workings of Japan’s system of relief measures for A-bomb survivors.
The visitors consist of three staff members from the A-bomb Sufferers Welfare Center, located in Hapcheon County, South Korea, and two staff members from the Korean Red Cross, which operates the welfare center, including Park Sun-young, the Special Welfare Services Office Director. After speaking with Yasuhiro Kawazoe, the director general of the City of Hiroshima’s Health and Welfare Bureau, they listened to an overview of the relief measures from city staff. Mr. Park said that the aging of A-bomb survivors is also an important issue in South Korea and that he would like to make use of what he learns in Hiroshima to help residents of the welfare center.
On this day, the Korean staff visited Kanda Sansou, a care facility for A-bomb survivors located in Higashi Ward. They will also visit nursing homes for A-bomb survivors in the city during their stay, which lasts until December 2.
Hapcheon has been dubbed “Hiroshima in Korea” because of its large population of A-bomb survivors who were exposed to the bomb’s radiation in Hiroshima, and some 100 A-bomb survivors are now living at the A-bomb Sufferers Welfare Center. Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare asked the City of Hiroshima to train personnel involved in providing support for the A-bomb survivors in South Korea, and the city initiated its training program in 1999. Since 2002, it has conducted such training programs each year.
(Originally published on November 29, 2016)
On November 28, five South Korean staff members from the A-bomb Sufferers Welfare Center and the Korean Red Cross arrived in Hiroshima to study the workings of Japan’s system of relief measures for A-bomb survivors.
The visitors consist of three staff members from the A-bomb Sufferers Welfare Center, located in Hapcheon County, South Korea, and two staff members from the Korean Red Cross, which operates the welfare center, including Park Sun-young, the Special Welfare Services Office Director. After speaking with Yasuhiro Kawazoe, the director general of the City of Hiroshima’s Health and Welfare Bureau, they listened to an overview of the relief measures from city staff. Mr. Park said that the aging of A-bomb survivors is also an important issue in South Korea and that he would like to make use of what he learns in Hiroshima to help residents of the welfare center.
On this day, the Korean staff visited Kanda Sansou, a care facility for A-bomb survivors located in Higashi Ward. They will also visit nursing homes for A-bomb survivors in the city during their stay, which lasts until December 2.
Hapcheon has been dubbed “Hiroshima in Korea” because of its large population of A-bomb survivors who were exposed to the bomb’s radiation in Hiroshima, and some 100 A-bomb survivors are now living at the A-bomb Sufferers Welfare Center. Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare asked the City of Hiroshima to train personnel involved in providing support for the A-bomb survivors in South Korea, and the city initiated its training program in 1999. Since 2002, it has conducted such training programs each year.
(Originally published on November 29, 2016)
