Loss of life after evacuation: lessons learned from the Fukushima accident.

This is a report of the tragic events that befell hospital inpatients and elderly people in the emergency evacuation after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident on March 11, 2011. Before the earthquake and tsunami that preceded the nuclear accident, there were eight hospitals and 17 nursing care facilities located within a 20 km radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The estimated numbers of hospital inpatients and elderly people in nursing facilities at that time were about 1240 and 980, respectively. On March 11, the huge earthquake and tsunami severely damaged the number 1, 2, 3, and 4 reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The national government issued a State of Atomic Emergency in the evening of that day and evacuation was ordered for See World Report page 880 RCP should make an urgent statement against Health and Social Care Bill