![]() The Nagasaki hospital also managed 18,187 inpatient visits by survivors and 12,878 visits by children of survivors. Their care required 36,260 outpatient visits by survivors and 23,865 outpatient visits by their children, underlining concerns about second-generation health effects of nuclear weapons. ![]() In the year ending 31 March 2015, the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital treated 6,030 officially recognized survivors as outpatients and 1,267 as inpatients. Of the atomic bomb survivor deaths that occurred in the hospital through March 2014, nearly two-thirds (63%) were attributed to malignant tumors (cancer) of which the primary types were lung cancer (20%), stomach cancer (18%), liver cancer (14%), leukemia (8%), intestinal cancer (7%) and malignant lymphoma (6%). In the year ending 31 March 2015 alone, the Hiroshima Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital treated 4,657 individual officially recognized atomic bomb survivors whose care involved 62,130 outpatient visits and 34,807 inpatient admissions. During the period of Red Cross management through 31 March 2015, these hospitals have together handled more than 2.5 million outpatient visits by atomic bomb survivors and more than 2.6 million admissions of survivors as inpatients. The Japanese Red Cross Society has run hospitals for atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima since 1956 and in Nagasaki since 1969. In 2015, seventy years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese Red Cross Society hospitals in those cities are still treating many thousands of people who survived the blasts and are suffering from the long-term health effects of exposure to nuclear radiation. Prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in cooperation with the Japanese Red Cross Society Long-term Health Consequences of Nuclear Weapons
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