Saturday, July 22, 2023

A young Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor's younger brother was lying on a bed in a hospital room at the Omura Naval Hospital, and his sister, dressed in a monpe, visited him. The younger brother had burns on his face and forearms from the Nagasaki atomic bomb. 

   The Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped and exploded on August 9, 1945; on the day of August 9, approximately 758 atomic bomb survivors were admitted to the Omura Naval Hospital in the town of Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture. Thereafter, when the survivors from the relief station in Nagasaki City were included, more than 1,000 survivors were housed at the hospital. A young Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor's younger brother lay on a bed in a hospital room at the Omura Naval Hospital, and his sister, dressed in a monpe, visited him. The younger brother had burns on his face and forearms from the Nagasaki atomic bomb. 

 During the Pacific War, Nagasaki Prefecture was a naval base. Nagasaki City had munitions factories, Sasebo City had the Sasebo Naval Base, and Omura City had the Naval Air Force. And the Omura Naval Hospital housed Japanese soldiers who had been wounded in the war. On a flat area near the Sasebo township, the Omura Naval Air Station was the closest air base to the continent, with an airstrip on the beach in Omura-cho, Higashisonogi-gun (now Omura City), Nagasaki Prefecture.

 The Wartime Disaster Relief and Protection Law stipulated that relief stations were to be open for no more than two months, and from around mid-October, relief stations in various parts of Nagasaki City were closed. The A-bomb survivors were taken to Nagasaki Station, put on trains, and transported to the Omura Naval Hospital, which had served as a base for housing A-bomb survivors since immediately after the Nagasaki atomic bombing. The Omura Naval Hospital, which stood on a small hill in Kuhara, Omura-cho, Higashisonogi-gun, Nagasaki Prefecture, rescued more than a thousand A-bomb survivors.

 On August 9, 1945, about 758 atomic bomb survivors were admitted to the Omura Naval Hospital following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki City. The doctors who had been in charge of treatment immediately after the war ended were evacuated. The remaining doctors also became disabled for work, and by the end of August, approximately 450 severely injured A-bomb survivors had been discharged from the hospital, leaving only about three hospitalized patients as of October in a hospital that had a capacity of about 2,000. At that time, Nagasaki Medical College (former Nagasaki Medical School), which had been damaged by the atomic bomb, moved its classrooms to the Omura Naval Hospital. The Nagasaki Medical College (former Nagasaki Medical School), which had been damaged by the Nagasaki atomic bomb at the time, moved its classrooms to the Omura Naval Hospital. In December 1945, the hospital was transferred to the Ministry of Health and Welfare and became the National Omura Hospital under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. In April 2001, the name was changed to the current National Hospital Organization Nagasaki Medical Center.



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