Kobe City orders improvements based on the Medical Care Act due to problems at Kobe Tokushukai Hospital. Investigation by the city revealed that medication for his chronic diabetes was not administered at one point to a hospitalized patient in his 70s who died the following month.
The improvement order requires companies to submit a concrete plan for a fundamental review of their safety management system by the 5th of next month. This is a more severe measure than administrative guidance, and if the government does not comply, the hospital may be ordered to suspend operations.