Rejection of emergency transportation at multiple hospitals in Tokyo 979 cases April 15 5:05
Last month when the spread of the new coronavirus began, there were 979 cases where multiple hospitals refused to accept emergency transportation in Tokyo, and the Tokyo Fire Department reported that there were nearly 300 cases increased from last year. understood.
According to the Tokyo Fire Department, when searching for a destination for emergency transportation, there were 979 cases where the hospital was refused by more than 5 hospitals or the destination could not be determined for more than 20 minutes. .
It increased by 297 cases or 43% from the same period last year.
In Tokyo, when patients are refused to be accepted from multiple hospitals, the local core hospital, instead of the emergency staff, searches for the destination, and operates a mechanism called "Tokyo Rule", but the infection spreads. It is expected that more cases will be refused this month.
In addition, 295 cases were confirmed to be positive or suspected to be positive for the new coronavirus among the patients who were sent to the emergency department for about three months until the 10th of this month.
Masataka Inoguchi, Vice Chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Association, said, "When a patient suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus is being delivered, many hospitals cannot accept it. It is difficult to prevent nosocomial infections. There is an urgent need to secure an acceptance system. ”