At Toyama Municipal Hospital 16 people infected "cluster" outbreak? New corona April 13 14:54
At Toyama Municipal Hospital in Toyama City, it became clear that 16 people, including doctors and patients, were infected with the new coronavirus, and Toyama Municipal Hospital showed outbreaks, a so-called "cluster," and resumed on March 13. I decided to stop the scheduled medical treatment for a while.
At Toyama Municipal Hospital, by the 12th, 16 nurses, including five nurses, eight inpatients, and three officials at the hospital, were known to have been infected.
Toyama Municipal Hospital held a press conference on Tuesday and revealed that two out of three hospital officials were male doctors in their 40s and 30s living in Kanazawa.
Both were orthopedic physicians working with female nurses in their 50s who were first infected at the hospital.The doctors in their 40s worked on outpatient clinic and surgery until 10th of this month. My teenage doctor also worked until 9th this month, performing outpatient care and surgery.
The other one was a 70-year-old female inpatient who had a fever of 39 degrees and 6 minutes on 8th of this month, was transported by emergency to Toyama Municipal Hospital from the hospital "Toyama Machinaka Hospital" and had surgery for gallbladder inflammation. Later, he found out.
Dr. Takashi Fujimura, director of Toyama Municipal Hospital, expressed the view that “a cluster had occurred” in response to a series of infections in the hospital.
It also means that Toyama City has begun a procedure to request the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to dispatch a “cluster response team” made up of researchers.
At Toyama Municipal Hospital, outpatient treatment scheduled to resume on the 13th will be suspended for about a week, orthopedic surgery will be suspended for about two weeks, and the reception of emergency patients will also be suspended in principle. Is to pause.
In addition, the infection of women in office workers in their 50s was also confirmed in the prefecture, and the number of confirmed infections in Toyama has been 44 so far.