Medical services resume in disaster-hit Fukushima city

Medical services resume in disaster-hit Fukushima city

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Doctor Tetsunosuke Takahashi (R) examines a patient in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 23, 2014, as medical services resume at a municipal hospital after more than a three-year hiatus following the 2011 nuclear crisis in the prefecture. Evacuees from the city are now allowed to visit their homes during the day.

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