Vice-minister of the Ministry of the Environment Shigeru Sumitani showed posture "It is difficult for us to execute it in fiscal year 2005" about the patient relief idea that Kumamoto Prefecture had presented at the regular news conference on December 6.
Kumamoto Prefecture had been bringing the patient rescue plan of the recuperation expense payment, 3.4 billion yen, to the patient who had not been relieved up to now reacting on the supreme court decision where the responsibility of the national compensation law of the government and Kumamoto Prefecture was admitted by the Kansai Minamata disease lawsuit.
Planning Section in the health part of the Ministry of the Environment described, "The measures idea that Kumamoto Prefecture had proposed is a big story . Moreover, budgetary process will come to an end in the coming year. If the business scale and the schedule were based, it is difficult to execute everything in fiscal year 2005".