Friday, March 18, 2011

Health triggers a security protocol for travelers from Japan

Madrid. .- The Ministry of Health and the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) have developed a protocol for monitoring people arriving from Japan though, according to available data, "no Spanish would have been severely polluted the environment of the Japanese central" . The Government has announced the launch of this protocol in a manual distributed information to resolve questions of citizenship before the nuclear crisis in Japan, which explains that Spain has almost 900,000 doses of potassium iodide to reduce the effects of a possible radiation exposure.

One of the questions in the questionnaire is whether people who come to Spain from Japan will be isolated by the risk of radioactivity or may go home. Explains the Executive Health and the CSN have launched a surveillance protocol for each individual case shall take appropriate measures.

"In principle, it is expected that all these people can go home," says the government. The manual also explains that the radioactivity is not spread, detailing the levels at which exposure can be fatal and lists symptoms and possible treatments, in particular potassium iodide prevents the absorption of radioactive iodine released in a nuclear accident and reduces the risk of thyroid cancer.

In Spain, the nuclear plans provide potassium iodide, reserves and currently has 862,339 capsules for adults and 17,481 children's doses. A total of 112,479 of the former and 2,280 of the latter are stored in the Directorate General of Civil Defense and Emergencies and the rest are distributed in the surrounding areas of nuclear power plants.

This protocol is added to by Environment aniunciado they inspect food products come from Japan.

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