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RSS FeedsHiroshima and Nagasaki: Women survivors of the atomic bombs
(WorldNews Canada)

 
 

3 august 2020 00:05:16

 
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Women survivors of the atomic bombs
(WorldNews Canada)
 


Teruko was 15 years old when she survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. At the time of the bombing, Teruko was in her second year of nursing school at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital. After the bomb hit, the students` dormitory of the hospital caught fire. Teruko helped to fight the flames, but many of her fellow students died in the blaze. Her only memories of the week after the bomb are of working day and night to treat victims with horrific injuries, while she and others had no food and little water. After graduating, Teruko continued to work at the hospital, where she assisted with operations involving skin grafts. Skin was taken from a patient`s thigh and grafted on to...


 
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