The contribution of the faculty of Departments S.M. Kirov’s Military-medical academy into the limitation the consequences of Chernobyl nuclear power plant acciden

There is information about the business of professorial and teachers’ faculty of the Department of naval and radiation hygiene and the Department of General and Military hygiene S.M. Kirov’s Military-medical academy into a limitation of consequences the most enormous radiation emergency, which happened on 26 of April 1986, on Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A significant part of the participants in the liquidation of the accident were servicemen, the cause of that military-medical service took the direct part in the implementation of preventive measures. A set of activities for the health protection liquidators and residents of settlements, placed on the contaminated areas allowed to significantly reduce the radiation exposure from external and internal radiation. The basis for the prevention of both acute lesions and long-term consequences was the maximum permissible level of the planned emergency radiation of 25 Rem. The entire faculty of the Department of Naval and Radiation Hygiene and a number of employees of the Department of General and Military Hygiene, who on a rotational basis were continuously in the zone of work to eliminate the consequences of the accident, went through the mill of Chernobyl. Their personal contribution to the solution of urgent scientific and applied problems of minimization of radiation impact and preservation of the health of servicemen-liquidators of the accident were noted.

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