Japanese gov gave up giving free medical care for Fukushima children

 

Following up this article ..Japanese government is preparing for the rapid increase of sickness from radiation

 

Japanese prime minister Noda decided not to give free medical care for Fukushima children thought they were preparing for the request of Fukushima local government. The reason is because they don’t have enough budget.
The current cabinet estimate it to be about 10 billion yen, but they were afraid it might be increased. They also assumed it would be difficult to collect doctors to want to go to Fukushima.
The headquarters of re-construction center also talks, that would be unfair for other prefectures to give free medical care even just to normal cold.

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福島の子の医療費無料化を断念 首相、財源困難と判断

野田佳彦首相は、福島県内の18歳以下の医療費無料化を断念する方針を固めた。福島県からの要請を受けて検討する考えを表明していたが、財源確保が難しいと判断した。近く県側に伝える。

東京電力福島第一原発事故の影響で子どもの放射線被曝(ひばく)への懸念が強まっており、福島県の佐藤雄平知事が無料化を求めていた。県外への人口流出を防ぐねらいもある。首相は今月8日に福島県を訪れた際、「政府内でしっかり検討したい」と表明していた。

野田政権は必要な経費を年間100億円弱と試算したが、医療費が膨らむ可能性も指摘されていた。政権内で検討した結果、無料化で増える受診に対応する医師の確保が新たな問題点として浮上。福島県外の住民との公平性からも難しいと判断した。復興対策本部の幹部は「額はそれほど大きくないが、風邪などの医療費も含めて福島だけ無料にする説明がつきにくい」と話す。

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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