Working as a nurse with corona infection "Serious staff shortage" told by a colleague April 24, 18:27
While the “Namihaya Rehabilitation Hospital” in Ikuno-ku, Osaka, had a nurse who was infected with the new coronavirus working at a hospital, a colleague's woman criticized the hospital's response in response to an NHK telephone call, but the background of the problem Has a serious staff shortage in the medical field.
This issue was initiated by the city of Osaka, where a colleague, a female nurse, Twitter started her investigation.
I posted a message from the hospital saying, "I want you to work with a staff member who has a positive test and has symptoms such as fever."
About this instruction, a colleague's woman told NHK's telephone interviewer, "I was suddenly incredible and at the moment I heard it, I broke up. I can not work a person who is positive in the test."
In addition, my boss explained that the positive staff is in charge of patients who are positive in the test, and the negative staff is in charge of negative patients, but the woman said, "There are few staff during night shift, It's difficult to separate exactly, and we couldn't avoid using the same nurse station, which could spread the infection further. " The woman consulted with a public health center and did not go to work.
On the other hand, the woman said about the current situation in the medical field, "There were many staff who were waiting at home after the infected person came out, and it was a situation where they managed to turn around with a barely limited number of people. There were some people who worked almost continuously for nearly an hour, "he said, blaming a serious staff shortage behind the problem.
In addition, he said, "Medical supplies such as protective clothing do not often go to small general hospitals." "Be careful not to repeat this kind of thing, how to deal with medical institutions when an infected person appears. It is important to establish the guidelines that have been established and how to provide support. "