Stanford team on their experiences in Haiti

1:2:1 - Stanford University School of Medicine

Paul Auerbach, MD, and emergency room nurse Heather Tilson
A team of doctors and nurses from Stanford's emergency medicine division have returned to the Bay Area after spending two weeks in Haiti. During this podcast, Paul Auerbach, MD, and emergency room nurse Heather Tilson, talk about Haiti, their work there under the most dire conditions, and the courage of the nation's people. Length: 30 min.
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Greenpeace Radiation Monitoring Team at Work




Japan Radiation Monitoring Team Finds Radiation Limits 'Far Above' Recommended Limits

A group of Greenpeace radiation experts today started monitoring locations around the evacuation area that surrounds the crisis-stricken Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear plant, in order to assess the true extent of radiation risks to the local population.

Radiation levels found by the team are far above internationally recommended limits - people living here would receive the yearly maximum dose of radioactivity within a few days, yet have not yet been evacuated.

“Since the beginning of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the authorities have consistently appeared to underestimate both the risks and extent of radioactive contamination. We have come to Fukushima to bear witness to the impacts of this crisis and to provide some independent insight into the resulting radioactive contamination”, said Greenpeace team leader and radioactivity safety advisor Jan van de Putte.

“By providing honest, transparent and independent analysis of the threats to public health, we aim to provide an alternative to the often contradictory information released by nuclear regulators in the two weeks since the Fukushima disaster began unfolding.”

Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture Japan, 27 March 2011 - A Greenpeace team member holds a Geiger counter displaying radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour. Radiation levels found by the Greenpeace monitoring team are far above internationally recommended limits - people living here would receive the yearly maximum dose of radioactivity within a few days, yet have not yet been evacuated. The Greenpeace team is continuing to monitor locations around the Fukushima evacuation area in order to assess the true extent of radiation risks to the local population. * City: Itatezoom
  • Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture Japan, 27 March 2011 - A Greenpeace team member holds a Geiger counter displaying radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour. Radiation levels found by the Greenpeace monitoring team are far above internationally recomm
  • Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 27 March 2011 - Greenpeace radiation safety experts Jan Van de Putte and Jacob Namminga monitor contamination levels at Iitate village, 40km northwest of the crisis-stricken Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear plant, and 20km b
  • Kawamata, Japan, 27 March 2011 - A dog is scanned for radioactivity by government officials at Kawamata City, 60 km from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.Radiation levels found by the Greenpeace monitoring team are far above internationally recommended limi
  • Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture Japan, 27 March 2011 - A Greenpeace team member holds a Geiger counter displaying radiation levels of 8.39 micro Sievert per hour. Radiation levels found by the Greenpeace monitoring team are far above internationally recomm
  • Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 27 March 2011 - Greenpeace radiation safety expert Jacob Namminga monitors contamination levels at Iitate village, 40km northwest of the crisis-stricken Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear plant, and 20km beyond the official eva
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A group of Greenpeace radiation experts today started monitoring locations around the evacuation area that surrounds the crisis-stricken Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear plant, in order to assess the true extent of radiation risks to the local population. Radiation levels found by the team are far above internationally recommended limits - people living here would receive the yearly maximum dose of radioactivity within a few days, yet have not yet been evacuated.

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Mobile tech only goes so far in Japan relief efforts


By: Neil Versel | Mar 23, 2011 9:46pm EST

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PAMF's Dr. Enoch Choi
Technology has its limits.
At least one American aid team has dispatched to Japan, iPhones and iPads with mobile EMR software and medical reference tools in hand. But they haven’t been able to unleash the power of their handheld computers to help the estimated 261,000 people still living in shelters as of Wednesday—12 days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
“They’re desperate for basic food, water, fuel,” says Dr. Enoch Choi, an urgent care physician at Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundation and medical director of Jordan International Aid, a California-based Christian aid organization. “They’re out of medicine.”
There is a particular shortage of potassium iodide pills to counter the effects of radiation from crippled nuclear power plants, Choi says.
Jordan International Aid has sent a team of nine disaster-response veterans, including a physician and a nurse, to help in the coastal city of Ishinomaki, which was all but washed away by the tsunami that followed the 9.0-magnitude quake on March 11. But most couldn’t get transportation from Sendai, the capital of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in Japan’s Tohugu region, where the disaster is centered.
“The sad thing is, medical volunteers are all jammed up in Sendai,” Choi reports. While he remains in California, he is in regular contact with the aid team in Japan and is preparing for future relief missions once the situation is more under control.

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