Response to radiation incidents and radionuclear threats

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7447.1075

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Authors' reply

István Turai, medical officer (turaii@who.int),
Katalin Veress, senior lecturer,
Bengül Günalp, associate professor,
Gennadi Souchkevitch, deputy director

Department of Protection of the Human Environment, World Health Organization, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Department of Public Health, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Gülhane Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey
Institute of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Moscow, Russia

EDITOR—Benger's remarks give us an opportunity to re-emphasise one of the key messages of our article: saving the lives of patients with life threatening conditions should always have a priority, as providing emergency medical care for a patient contaminated with radioactive materials cannot pose a serious direct health risk to medical staff.

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