Chelyabinsk Medical Institute for Radiation Related Diseases

At the Chelyabinsk Medical Institute for radiation related diseases is doctor, Valerie Andreievitsch, doing his rounds. He is a specialist in internal medicine, has worked in this hospital for 12 years now: “I feel ashamed of the conditions in hospital. There have not been any repairs in the last 8 years. The food we provide is not enough, the major part is provided by relatives. We just haven’t enough money. The hospital is especially for people who got sick because of the nuclear pollution around Mayak. All inhabitants of that region are obliged to go there once a year for a medical check-up, though many people are so poor that they even cannot afford a bus ticket to the city. (Half life book page 24)