Medical treatment by satellite

Doctors at Shinshu University in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture consulted Feb. 19 with their colleagues in Belarus after carrying out via satellite a transplant of peripheral blood stem cells for a five-year-old female leukemia patient in Belarus. Shinshu University has been providing medical support to the former Soviet republic since 1991 to treat victims suffering from radiation exposure stemming from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.

• Product Code
• ILEA001078300

• Registered date
• 1999/2/19 00:00:00

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• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

• Media source
• 1999 Kyodo News

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