%0 Journal Article
%T Nature¡¯s call again: are we ready?
%A M M Aarif Syed
%J International Journal of Students' Research
%D 2011
%I International Journal of Students' Research
%R 10.5549/ijsr.1.2.36
%X Japan¡¯s north-east coast now stands devastated, courtesy an earthquake which measured about 9 on Richter scale on March 11, subsequently triggering one of the worst tsunamis ever witnessed by this century. The radioactive leakage from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station following a blast has perhaps put Japan in a situation which may be grave than what it faced after the atomic show in 1945. The consequences of these disasters on health are massive as far as public health domain is accounted. The health care system of the country is put under severe test to meet a sudden surge in the need of services at an astronomical level. Japan has the history of rising from the rubbles. A nation of four islands is always sitting on the brink of natural as well as man-made disasters. It stood strongly following the earthquake of 1923. It had shown extraordinary courage to rebuild itself following atomic attack of WW II. It serves the example of a society which is always prepared to take on the challenge.
%K Disaster
%K Japan
%K tsunami
%K earthquake
%K health
%U http://www.ijsronline.com/index.php/IJSR/article/view/88/167