Hiroshima-still feeling the fallout
Everywhere, there are cranes. Hundreds of the folded origami paper birds are massed on strings in patients’ rooms at Hiroshima’s Atomic Bomb Hospital, tokens of good luck for people who aer sick and dying. Fifteen years after the bomb, increasing numbers of people are suffering from leukemia, or cancer of the bolod. As CBC reporter Michael Macelar tours the hospital, he learns that between 40 and 50 people are still dying each year of complications from the atomic bomb.
Broadcast Date: July 31, 1960