A surprising episode of Brazilian history will inspire the production of a new Netflix miniseries. The streaming company has announced that the work will concern the largest radioactive accident in Brazil, which took place in Goiânia, in 1987.
Radioactive emergency The performance of doctors and doctors in the race against time to save thousands of lives will follow. Despite the confirmation, no premiere for production has been issued.
In September 1987, the improper management of abandoned radiotherapy, where the Goiano radiotherapy institute operated, caused a disaster that affected hundreds of people, directly and indirectly. Since it contains lead, a material relating to financial value, a source of Cesio-137 was sold to a landfill deposit, whose owner passed it to two other deposits, as well as distributing the fragments of radioactive material to relatives and friends who, in turn, brought them home.
According to the State Health Department, the source, with radioactivity of 50.9 TBQ (1375 CI) contained Cessio chloride, high solubility chemical compound. With the violation of the equipment, several 137C fragments were scattered in the environment, in the form of bright blue powder, causing contamination of various positions, in particular in those in which there was manipulation of the material and where the various parts of the radiotherapy device were taken.
According to the newspapers and the media of the time, as well as the official information of the Government of Goian, the people who had contacts with radioactive material – directly on the skin (external contamination), inhalation, ingestion, penetration through skin lesions (internal contamination) and irradiation – had, from the first days, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and burning.
Some of them sought medical assistance in local hospitals up to the wife of the old iron deposit, suspecting that this material was linked to the discomfort that was massacred on her family, led the piece to the health surveillance division of the health department, where the material was finally identified as radioactive.
In Goiânia, in total, 112,800 people were monitored, of whom 249 had a significant internal and/or external contamination, and in 120 of them the contamination was only in clothes and shoes and were released after decontamination. The other 129 started receiving a normal medical follow -up.
In total, 28 people developed with greater or lesser intensity, radiation skin syndrome (the skin lesions were also called “radio -brown”). The four cases of death occurred about 4-5 weeks after exposure to radioactive material, due to the planned complications of sar bleeding (two patients) and generalized infection (including two patients).
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