Last haircut at Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Hospital Volunteer salon closes December 4th 14:31
A local hair salon that had been haircuting volunteers for more than 60 years at an A-bomb survivor at a hospital in Hiroshima City was closed and the last haircut was made on the 4th.
This activity was carried out by a hair salon in Hiroshima City at the Hiroshima Red Cross and Atomic Bomb Hospital. Since 1957, it has been haircutting several times a year, such as those who were hospitalized and difficult to go out.
However, because the building where the beauty salon was located was demolished, the store was closed in March next year, and the 4th was the last haircut.
On the 4th, four hairdressers visited the hospital and asked their patients how they wanted their hair to be cut.
According to the hospital, there are 124 haircut volunteers in total for 62 years and a total of 5,000 haircut patients.
Some of the patients who had their haircuts visited the beauty salon after leaving the hospital and expressed their gratitude to them as “thank you”.
A 77-year-old woman who was an atomic bomb survivor said, “I feel very refreshed and I am very grateful.
Kinko Okino of “New Futaba Beauty Salon” who volunteered for three generations, “I have been working with my mother and grandmother. I wanted to continue to have a haircut for patients. “I feel lonely when I think it ’s the last day,” he said.