Patient death in a hospital with a blackout Survey on whether the prefecture was affected Chiba Inzai September 10 18:16
According to Chiba Prefecture, a hospitalized male patient who needed aspiration from a hospital in Inzai City who had a power outage due to a typhoon died on the morning of the 10th. Chiba Prefecture is investigating whether there was any power outage due to the fact that this hospital did not have a private power generator.
According to Chiba prefecture, a 62-year-old male patient who had been hospitalized for treatment of cerebral infarction at Nishi-Sakura Inzai Hospital in Inzai City died after 9:00 am on the 10th.
According to the explanation that Chiba Prefecture received from the hospital side, the power outage started intermittently at around 3 am due to the typhoon 15 at the hospital, and it was completely out at 5:45 am.
The man fell consciousness around 4:30 am after the start of an intermittent power outage and was treated with oxygen inhalation at 6 am, but his death was confirmed after 9 am.
There was no private power generator in the hospital, and power was not secured.
The man's condition worsened from the 3rd of this month, meaning that once every 30 minutes, a simple aspiration was necessary and he had been treated with an electric aspirator.
Chiba Prefecture is investigating whether or not it was affected by the power outage, because it was not known if there was any problem with the power outage.