A man who is far away from his hometown and sees off his father who died at a hospital

A man far away from the hometown who saw off his father who died at the hospital 17:41 on April 13

He was transferred to a hospital far away from home to use ECMO, an artificial heart-lung machine used to treat patients who became extremely ill with the new coronavirus. His son told NHK about his feelings of seeing his father alone.

The male father is 81 years old.

The infection was confirmed on February 20.

It is thought that he was infected at the gym he attended.

At first it was relatively stable, such as being able to talk over the phone, but the situation changed rapidly.

The man said, "The fever was going down, so if I came out, I'd like to drink again," and my father said, "Thank you." That was the last conversation. It went down abruptly and got worse enough to install a ventilator the next day. I think the sudden change is the scary part of the virus. "

A few days later, it was necessary to install ECMO.

At the time, it was explained that the hospital that had been hospitalized did not have a sufficient system for managing ECMO, and the attending physician searched for a new hospital and found a hospital in Tokyo.

At hospitals in Tokyo, treatment was continued with ECMO, but ECMO was removed due to cerebral infarction due to blood clots and continued bleeding due to side effects.

One month after the infection was confirmed, on March 20, the male father died.

Because the mother was also infected and was temporarily hospitalized, a single man saw his father through the ICU glass.

The man wanted to transport his father to his hometown for his mother who was waiting at home, but there was no place to accept him, and he was cremated in Tokyo that day.

The man who did not even have a mourning dress told her father that she was dressed in the hospital.

The man said, "I thought that my father would be grieving even if I cry or hit someone with anger, so I was waiting for the cremation to end silently without any emotion. It was warm and my knees were soaked with sweat. I returned home. "

Regarding the interview, the man said, “The number of infected people has increased and an emergency has been declared, but there are also people around me who do not have a sense of danger. I don't think the fight against this virus will end. In my story, I thought that if I changed my mind a little and changed my behavior, it would be my father's memorial service. "