Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - An elderly patient receives an examination at a makeshift facility of Shizugawa public hospital, a central hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, on April 18. The hospital, which lost 70 of its around 300 inpatients and workers in the disaster, fully reopened at prefab facilities the same day. The hospital is using the prefab units and equipment donated by an Israeli medical aid team that finished its operations in Minamisanriku on April 10.

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