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14 May 2010

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Army R&R hospital to Discharge two Nuclear Radiation Exposed Patients

 
   The Army Hospital (Research and Referral) would soon discharge the twopatients exposed to radiation from nuclear scrap. Commandant, R&R Hospital,Lt. General Naresh Kumar, said here today that the two patients have showngood recovery over the last few weeks and their condition is near normal.

   Deepak Jain, 32, and Ajay Jain, 40, were admitted to the hospital last month with low blood counts due to bone marrow suppression following accidental radiation exposure to Cobalt-60 at a scrap shop in the Mayapuri area of the city.

   "Their condition is clinically stable and free of any infection orbleeding," Lt. Gen. Kumar said, adding, "Ajay Jain's wound is healing well." Despite being released from the hospital in a day or two, the doctors would
continue to closely monitor the condition of the two patients, he said. "Volunteer donors having 100 percent matching Human Lymphocyte Antigen (HLA) have been kept on standby for bone marrow transplant if their condition worsens," said Lt. Gen. Kumar.


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