Ukraine thanks Cuba for helping Chernobyl victims

[Judi Lynn]

Ukraine thanks Cuba for helping Chernobyl victims
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-12-24 13:14

HAVANA- Ukraine thanked Cuba for 20 years of medical assistance to about 26,000 children victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, visiting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Konstantin Grishenko said here on Thursday.

"We will never forget what Cuba has done for us," Grishenko said while visiting the residential complex "Tarara," east of Havana, where the Ukrainian victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have received medical treatment for 20 years.

The assistance program began in 1990. Although the 1990s was the most critical period for the Cuban economy, Cuba covered the costs for the treatment.

In 1998, Ukraine started to pay the airfare and salaries of the Ukrainian teachers and provide guidance in "Tarara."

About 80 percent of the children victims arrived from Ukraine while the rest came from the former Soviet republics of Russia, Belarus and Moldova.

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Reuters Pictures 21 months ago
A Ukranian girl who is a victim of the radiation fallout from the
1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, walks with her mother at the
Pediatric Hospital in Tarara, outside of Havana, April 1, 2009.
For the past 19 years, Cuba has been providing free health treatment
to around 24,000 child victims of the Chernobyl explosion in Ukraine.

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