Hospital requested to transport patient to another hospital Chiba Kimitsu September 9 22:33

According to Chiba Prefecture and Kimitsu City, there is a request from “Suzuki Hospital” in Kimitsu City to transfer inpatients to another medical institution due to the power outage. It means that we are coordinating acceptance at central hospitals.

According to Kimitsu Central Hospital, the disaster dispatch medical team D-MAT was listening to the medical situation in this area over the telephone in the morning of the 9th, because “Suzuki Hospital” was not connected. , D-MAT members went to the site.

It was decided that it was necessary to transport inpatients to another hospital because the hospital was out of power and food reserves were low.

The patients who requested transportation were mainly elderly, 75 people who needed a stretcher, 20 people who needed a wheelchair, and 4 people who could walk by themselves, a total of 99 people, 3:30 pm It means that it is being transported from around.

According to Chiba Prefecture, 77 of the medical institutions in the prefecture were out of power, all of them were supported by private power generation facilities, 23 were shut down, and all of them were supported by stockpiling etc. .