Iwate Hospital that refused pregnant women on their way home Home improvement of infection control system New corona April 24, 18:07
Amid the spread of the new coronavirus, two prefectural hospitals refused to accept it despite the emergency delivery of pregnant women returning home from the metropolitan area to Iwate Prefecture. We installed an infectious disease prevention machine in the operating room to accept pregnant women who are suspected to have been infected.
Iwanose Prefectural Hospital's Ichinoseki City's Iwai Hospital and Kitakami City's Chubu Hospital said that in mid-May this year, a pregnant woman returning from the metropolitan area had ruptured and rushed to an emergency hospital, and said I could not confirm whether or not there was a virus infection. "
In response to this situation, Chubu Hospital will respond to the emergency delivery of pregnant women who are suspected of being infected, so that the air inside the room will not leak to one of the eight operating rooms. I installed a special machine called.
According to the hospital, the operation of this operating room started on the 24th, and it is possible to handle not only pregnant women but also infected people who need surgery due to another illness or suspected infection.
Tatsuro Ito, director of Chubu Hospital, said, "I had to refuse because there were no countermeasures for nosocomial infections, but I will take proper measures in the future because the countermeasures for the operating room are in place."
Another Iwai Hospital, which refused to accept pregnant women, will take measures against infectious diseases and prepare for acceptance in the future.