Kanagawa Prefecture Increased medical system level due to spread of infection April 10, 22:58
Kanagawa Prefecture, which is promoting the construction of a medical system in response to the spread of the new coronavirus, has announced that it has raised the level of the prefecture's own medical system by one step, as it has entered the "transition period" to postponement of patients rapidly increasing. .
Kanagawa Prefecture has indicated the “Kanagawa Model” as a measure to prevent medical collapse, and has set the level of acceptance at medical institutions according to the number of severely and moderately ill patients to the current “Phase 0, “Phase 1” is the transition period to the postponement and “Phase 2” is the postponement.
On October 10, Governor Kuroiwa held a temporary press conference, announcing that the number of seriously ill patients had reached about 40 due to a surge in the number of infected people, and that the healthcare system would be raised to "Phase 1", a transitional period. .
This will enable full-scale acceptance of critically ill patients at advanced medical institutions and intensive transport to "Priority Medical Institutions" that accept moderately ill patients.
In addition, we announced that we will rent out 2300 rooms at APA Hotel & Resort Yokohama Bay Tower in Naka-ku, Yokohama City as a facility for receiving mild or asymptomatic people and start accepting them from 20th of this month. .
Governor Kuroiwa said, "I would like to share the sense of crisis with the prefectural residents that the phase of infection spread has changed, promote the Kanagawa model, and prevent medical collapse."