Countries-donors allocate EUR500 000 for Chernobyl program of humanitarian aid and rehabilitation
More than EUR500 thousand will be assigned for implementation of the Chernobyl program of humanitarian aid and rehabilitation by 2008. The funds have been allocated by the countries-donors – Ireland, Canada and Japan, BelTA learnt from coordinator of the Chernobyl program Nikolai Nagorny who took part in the session of the Chernobyl International Coordination Committee held in Gomel today.
According to the specialist, the funds will be assigned for purchasing medicines and vitamins and also for the work of Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian mobile diagnostics labs.
According to Nikolai Nagorny, the Belarusian Red Cross has implemented the Chernobyl program of humanitarian aid and rehabilitation since 1990 with the aim to improve the health state of the people who live in the polluted areas. The program is funded at the expense of the international donors. In line with the program, the mobile diagnostic labs operate in the Brest, Gomel and Mogilev oblasts mainly in the regions the most distant from big medical centers.
The session was organized by the Belarusian Red Cross Society, the Gomel Oblast Red Cross Organization and also the National Center of Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology. Heads of the Red Cross Societies of Russia and Ukraine are taking part in the session as well.
