JAPANESE NURSES CONTROL THEIR EMOTIONS TO HEALTH HURTS WROUGHT BY EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI
April 1st, 2011
BY JULIAN RYALL
NEARLY two months after northern Japan was shaken by a magnitude-9 earthquake and then inundated by a tsunami that in places reached a height of 38 metres and devastated a nuclear power plant, the final casualty toll has not been calculated. As of April 24, 14,300 people had been confirmed killed in the natural disasters of March 11, but 11,999 residents of the region still had not been accounted for.
It has been similarly difficult to get an accurate picture of the number of nurses, doctors and medical facilities in the disaster zone that have ...
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