Ukraine Asks for Help for Chernobyl Victims
Ukraine needs Western help to treat the victims of the 1986 disaster at its Chernobyl nuclear plant, a member of the country’s Parliament said Friday.
Andrei Bulgakov said during a conference on the risks of nuclear power that his newly independent country could not cope with the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear accident on its own.
“We do not have enough drugs or medical equipment, and the doctors are often not sufficiently qualified,” he said.
Ukraine and the neighboring republics worst affected by nuclear fallout have reported a dramatic increase in leukemia and other diseases.
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