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5. Damage from my father because he could not receive sufficient treatment in the local hospital

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   My concern is that when we evacuated we left my father behind. The public hospital Souma-byouin ("Souma-byouin") (where my father was hospitalized) said: "If something happens, we will make patients evacuate."
However, according to my father, he could not receive proper treatment after the explosion of the nuclear power plant. So he returned to his home in Souma-shi and began visiting the hospital.
   When his symptoms worsened, he was hospitalized and when it improved he visited the hospital repeatedly. When he is healthy, he worked to the requests of customers.

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   Although the hospital did not close, a significant number of its staff evacuated and did not return after the explosion of the nuclear power plant, therefore they could not receive sufficient treatment.
   He told me that although young doctors were replenished from university "Tokyo-daigaku" Faculty of Medicine through Fukushima Medical University, the hospital was not fully operational due to the emergency preparations, and my father could not receive proper medical care, so my father said.

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   I'm not saying that was the cause, but right after that, my father's cancer suddenly 
got worse until he was told he only had half a year to live. Fortunately, he was quickly transported, the treatment he received at a hospital in the city of Sendai was successful, and my father was able to survive.
 

   The hospital told me that if my father continued to receive proper treatment, he could still live, but the medical care in Souma-shi is currently the worst, so they did not allow me to hospitalize my father. In 2014 I took him to my house in Shiga-ken prefecture, lived with him and worked hard to treat and heal my father.
   There, my father's condition improved enough to go out by car with my mother, but in March of 2019, he suddenly fell into a coma and passed away at the age of 82, without fulfilling his wish to return to Fukushima-ken.