26 June 2002
Italian charity delivers mobile diagnosis laboratory to Brest region
Legambiente Solidarieta, an Italian charity, delivered a Daily Iveco mobile laboratory for diagnosis of thyroid disorders to the district medical
center in Luninets, Brest region, on June 19, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Valentina Sergiyevich told BelaPAN. According to Ms. Sergiyevich, Belarusian doctors will own the laboratory after they have reported to the Italian donor on the results of three-year research.
The mobile laboratory, intended for examining the Luninets district's Chernobyl-affected population in their places of residence, has an ultrasound unit, computers and other advanced equipment for thyroid cancer diagnosis, and its personnel have completed training courses in Italy, said Ms. Sergiyevich.
Children, who number 20,000 of the district's 80,000 population, will be examined first, she noted. Since 1994, Legambiente Solidarieta has arranged for the recuperation of more than 20,000 children from Belarus,
Russia and Ukraine in Italy. As many as 1,200 children are to go to Italy for vacations between June and September this year.
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