Nurse's child nursery school refuses discrimination and prejudice against medical personnel April 18 5:19
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There are a number of cases in which medical personnel who treat patients with new coronavirus receive discriminatory treatment. In some cases, nurses and other children are refused to be accepted by the nursery school, and experts point out that "the whole society should act based on correct knowledge."
At Fujita Medical University Hospital in Toyoake City, Aichi Prefecture, we are treating patients infected with the new coronavirus, and on the 9th of this month, we announced the infection confirmation of one doctor who had just arrived from another hospital.
According to the hospital, other staff members have no symptoms and no infection has been confirmed, but after that, the licensed nursery school in the prefecture refused to accept children of nurses and doctors.
A female nurse in her thirties said that she went to a child check-up before going to work and was told by the nursery school that "the children of those who went in and out of the hospital cannot be accepted."
I explained that there was no contact with infected doctors, but the response did not change, and in the end there was no place to leave the child, so I was forced to take a day off from work.
A female nurse said, "I feel like I want to work at a hospital and want to help people, but I couldn't work because I couldn't leave my child, so I felt frustrated."
According to the hospital, other children such as doctors and nurses were refused from the same nursery school.
Kei Yoshino, Director of Nursing Department of the Hospital, said, “Because it is done by a team, even if one staff member leaves, the quality of medical care cannot be maintained. I want to strengthen support for staff with children as a hospital.” I am.
Regarding the response this time, the nursery school said, "It was an unavoidable measure considering the possibility of infection to other children," and after that, acceptance was resumed.
On the other hand, a person in charge of the municipality where this nursery school says, "We are instructing to accept children of those who desire except for those with onset and rich contacts, and I think this response is inappropriate". .
Other discriminatory treatments for medical personnel are one after another, and at other medical institutions, relatives are required to suspend the use of nursing homes, and doctors are refused to take taxi rides. It was there.
Professor Tatsuhiro Kamisato of Chiba University, who is familiar with crisis management and human behavioral psychology, said, “I can understand the anxiety about infection, but I should act from the other party's point of view based on the correct knowledge. Discrimination and prejudice are major negatives for society as a whole. "