Independent, UK. It Is Impossible to Forget the Children of Chernobyl | Deep Field Relaxation

Independent, UK. It Is Impossible to Forget the Children of Chernobyl | Deep Field Relaxation: SUSAN DE MUTH 
Wednesday, 31 March 1993
'EVERYBODY seemed to be waiting for a miracle - for someone, somewhere to help them. But it didn't happen. I decided then that we had to help ourselves.'
Three years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident on 26 April 1986, Galina Sanderson, a programme maker for state television in Belarus, was filming children with leukaemia in hospital at Minsk, about 200 miles from the power station. 'One little girl died just three days afterwards; between 10 and 12 die every week. It was really hard for me as a mother. My own six-year-old, Dimitri, was sick - he had never been well since the accident, though he was perfectly healthy before.
'Although our doctors were doing their best, they didn't know what was going on, far less how to cope. Mothers in the hospital were desperate.'