New corona at Nagano Children's Hospital
At a hospital specializing in children in Azumino City, Nagano Prefecture, a shelter was set up in the courtyard to provide a dedicated check-up for suspected infections in order to prevent nosocomial infections with the new coronavirus.
The shelter was set up at Nagano Children's Hospital, which specializes in examining children in Azumino City, Nagano Prefecture.
The shelter is a tent, approximately 6 meters wide and 3 meters high, and was set up in the courtyard in February.
At the hospital, this shelter is used exclusively to examine children suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus, and to prevent in-hospital infection by avoiding contact with people who receive regular outpatient care.
Only children with chronic diseases who usually go to this hospital will be guided to the shelter from the parking lot without going through the reception.
There are facilities such as X-rays, and depending on the hospital, it will be possible to perform a PCR test independently in the hospital next week.
Last month, doctors and nurses trained doctors and nurses to check the procedure, and consider increasing the number of dedicated beds in the hospital from the current two beds to a maximum of 17 beds in case the number of patients increases. It is doing.
"We installed this to prevent hospital-acquired infections," said Nagano Prefectural Children's Hospital's Department of Infectious Diseases' department of infectious diseases. We do not know where the virus comes from, so we will continue to consider countermeasures.