Move comes amid fighting around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WARSAW - Polish officials said on Friday they had distributed anti-radiation tablets to fire departments nationwide in case of exposure triggered byfighting around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant"We decided on a preventative, preemptive move to start distributing potassium iodide tablets to district fire departments," Deputy Interior Minister Blazej Pobozy told reporters.
The tablets will be transferred to local authorities and eventually end up at distribution points - schools in most cases - where residents will pick them up if need be.The medical representative at the press conference, Doctor Wojciech Zgliczynski, cautioned against taking anti-radiation tablets except when necessary.
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