Residents with corona infections need priority hospitalization Nursing home for the elderly requests April 29, 6:01
It is said that there are a number of cases where elderly people in institutions cannot be hospitalized even after being infected with the new coronavirus. I requested the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to be admitted to the hospital.
What I requested was the "National Health Care Facility Association for the Elderly" and held a conference in Tokyo on the night of the 28th.
According to the results, there are many cases in which nursing homes for the elderly have been unable to be admitted to medical institutions for reasons such as "insufficient beds," although infections have been confirmed for the elderly in the care facilities.
In these facilities, infected people are isolated in private rooms, and staff members wear protective clothing to take care of them.However, as concentrated contacts, staff members are forced to wait at home, and people with dementia become infected and walk around. It means that there are many problems such as doing.
The association requests the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to preferentially be hospitalized if infection is confirmed in the elderly in the hospital.
Regarding infection in nursing homes for the elderly, it has been revealed that 17 people, including residents, have died at facilities in Matsudo and Ichikawa, Chiba prefectures.
Vice Chairman Hiroyuki Hirakawa of the National Association of Health Care Facilities for the Elderly said, "Nursing staff are not specialized in infectious diseases, and various problems occur as they are. I would like to ask you to increase the number of beds."