Selected WHO press releases

NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING

Speaking today at the Forty-sixth session of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in Manila, the Philippines, Dr Hiroshi Nakajima, WHO Director-General, addressed the issue of testing of nuclear weapons.
[WHO/69 12 Sep 95 ]

SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON HEALTH EFFECTS OF CHERNOBYL OPENS IN GENEVA

Just a few months before the 10th anniversary of the worst ever radiological accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine (26 April 1986), some 600 scientists, researchers, public health specialists and policy makers from 59 countries gathered in Geneva today to share the results of their studies and observations at a four-day scientific conference (20 - 23 November 1995) organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) together with the Republic and Canton of Geneva and the Ministries of Health of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
[WHO/82 20 Nov 1995]

WHO'S CHERNOBYL PROJECT GOES HIGH-TECH

In a first satellite broadcast between Geneva, Switzerland and Obninsk, the Russian Federation, scientists and medical experts in both cities were exchanging information and consulting today while examining real time diagnostic images of patients suffering from thyroid cancer linked to the Chernobyl fall-out.
[WHO/74 5 Oct 1995]

POST-CHERNOBYL: WORK CUT OUT FOR DECADES TO COME

"The legacy of Chernobyl will stay with us for a long time in the shape of radiation-induced diseases and psycho-somatic disorders," said Dr Wilfried Kreisel, Executive Director in charge of Health and Environment at the World Health Organization. Speaking on the last day of the International Conference on Health Consequences of the Chernobyl and other Radiological Accidents here in Geneva, he pointed out that "the WHO would want to see the volume and quality of medical assistance and scientific research increased. We shall be doing a disservice if we shall fail to extract benefits for mankind out of this monumental human tragedy. If history is not to repeat itself we should learn very well the lessons of Chernobyl".
[WHO/84 24 Nov 1995]

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