Doctors and nurses spent about 8 hours a day inside urban health centres examining a large number of patients. To assess radiation dose due to the attached and unattached fractions of the short-lived alpha-emitting radon decay products from the inhalation of air by working personnel and patients, concentrations of these radionuclides as well as those of radon and thoron gases were measured in indoor air of different health centres in the city of Marrakech (Morocco) by means of CR-39 and LR-115 type II solid state nuclear track detectors (SSNTDs). Committed equivalent doses per hour of exposure due to the attached and unattached fractions of 218Po and 214Po radon short-lived progeny were evaluated in different tissues of the respiratory tract of individuals from the inhalation of air inside the studied health centres. The influence of the activity of the attached and unattached fractions of 218Po and 214Po and mass of the tissue on the committed equivalent doses per hour of exposure was investigated. Annual committed effective doses due to the attached and unattached fractions of218Po and 214Po radon short-lived progeny from the inhalation of air by doctors, nurses and patients inside the studied hospitals were determined. A maximum value of 7.1 mSv y-1 was found for doctors working 40 hours per week.
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Radon, Thoron and Their Progenies, Attached and Unattached Fractions, Health Centres, Nuclear Track Detectors, Human Respiratory Tract, Radiation Dose Assessment
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