Amid the frigid temperature, the son, Akira, 60, and neighbors carried the elderly woman up a mountain, where she was air-lifted by helicopter the following afternoon to a nursing home.
Fully conscious but cold, Sai received intravenous drips and doses of insulin for her diabetes, but she had to go without the medication she used to take three times a day.
Sai kept eating and responding to her son even after she became unable to move. But she died 20 days after the disaster struck.
Her doctor listed the cause of death as disease.
Sai's case is one of the growing number of "invisible" deaths among evacuees who have died after developing illnesses or seeing their pre-existing conditions worsen following the quake.
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http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201104190200.html
・Here are the latest reports on the quake victims in Japan.
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・Save the Children, Japan quake victim
www.savethechildren.org/japanquake
OR;
http://japanearthquakeanimalrelief.chipin.com/japan-earthquake-animal-rescue-and-support/
・Save the Children, Japan quake victim
www.savethechildren.org/japanquake
・Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support Website
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Japan-Earthquake-Animal-Rescue-and-Support/207835229228979OR;
http://japanearthquakeanimalrelief.chipin.com/japan-earthquake-animal-rescue-and-support/
・Japanese Red Cross
http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002070.html
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