A map of the area around Soma General Hospital.

<p>Soma City is located 44 km north of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Soma General Hospital and a clinic in Minami-Soma City are the only two places that employ a full-time ENT doctor. In other hospitals, part-time doctors see patients in outpatient settings once or twice a week. Approximately one-third of the southern side of Minami-Soma City is part of the evacuation area. People in the other two-thirds of the city are suffering from a great deal of anxiety and stress. Railways were damaged by the disaster. The railway north of Soma City was washed away by the tsunami, and train service along the railway south of Minami-Soma City has been suspended for three years because of the accident at the nuclear power plant.