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- Copyright owner Luke Tchalenko / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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- Existing Description Pictures taken from "CHARP Focus" publication, 2005. One of the most positive features of CHARP (Chernobyl Humanitarian and Relief Programme) is that it reaches places where the local authorities have few facilities. As such, it provides vital moral support. The Mobile Diagnostic Laboratory (MDL) has come to the tiny Russian hamlet of village of Medvedovo, some 140 kilometres from Chernobyl, but right in the middle of the path taken by the radiation cloud. The clinic, in the village health centre, is busy with people of all ages. "We screen children as well if the parent's ask, says MDL head Victoria Hotsakova. We are the Red Cross, what else can we do?" Also taking time to have her thyroid checked is Anna Hetmanenka, 52, a biology teacher. Although she says «we work hard and we don't have time to listen to our diseases, "she also confesses «people constantly think about the consequences of the disaster and the possibility of new leakages". These days people have information – but she remembers it being "three to five years" before they understood the full impact of the Chernobyl explosion. "A laboratory came and took measurements and told us it wasn't good to work outside. Then we started to receive some small subsidies, and clean food like canned meat and sausages. They had such beautiful labels, better than any we'd seen before!" Anna says there have been changes in the health status of local people. Children and adults are weak and get ill very often. "I was here 20 years before the disaster, and I've been here 20 years since, so I can safely say people were healthier in the past". Her own thyroid is not enlarged but the Mobile Diagnostic Laboratory's ultrasound machine has detected a tiny cyst, just four millimetres in diameter, in the left half of the gland. The staff prescribe iodine tablets as prophylaxes, and ask Anna to get checked again in six months. 2005. © Luke Tchalenko, 2005. Moral Rights Asserted. License for INTERNAL USE ONLY granted to Red Cross
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