Even so there are people left to explain what happens to those that receive large doses of radioactivity. The area around Chernobyl will for always remain radioactively contaminated. Across the zone, graveyards for vehicles and sanitation equipment remain as grotesque monuments, so radioactive that they must remain isolated for an indeterminate amount of time. The 10-15 year period after the Hiroshima bomb exploded was the worst period in terms of cancer victims. It is now 13 years since the reactor melt down at Chernobyl only this disaster released seven times the amount of radiation as the Hiroshima explosion.
Children die or learn to live without limbs every month because of poor surgical equipment.
The fulfillment of promises of help from the authorities of the former Soviet Union have proven disappointing. The economic crisis in the Ukraine has adversely affected the social and medical situation to the extent that those in desperate need of help after the Chernobyl disaster are left to their own destiny. Hospitals urgently need medical equipment and supplies. Hospitals across the Ukraine are in urgent need of medical supplies, equipment and medication. Due to the country's economic crisis, financial support to medical and health services has abated.