Dialysis patients with new corona infection Doctors petition to secure hospitalization place May 8 Hyogo 18:03

Physicians in charge submitted a petition to Hyogo Prefecture and others to request more medical institutions to receive dialysis patients infected with the new coronavirus. It is said that if a dialysis patient becomes infected, he / she is likely to get seriously ill, and we are looking for a quick response.

The petition was submitted by the Hyogo Prefectural Dialysis Medical Association and a group of patients with kidney disease, which were made up of doctors who treat artificial dialysis. On the 8th, they visited Hyogo Prefectural Government and Kobe City and handed them to their respective staff. .

Since the petition received signatures from 205 medical institutions in the prefecture, we are requesting that hospitals for infected dialysis patients be secured and that the examination system for early detection of infection in dialysis patients be enhanced.

According to the Japan Dialysis Association, people with dialysis due to severe kidney disease have weakened immunity, and it is said that infection with the new coronavirus is more likely to cause serious illness. Six of the people are dead.

On the other hand, there are a limited number of medical institutions that are able to accept infected people who are undergoing dialysis treatment.

Yoji Ishii, Chairman of the Hyogo Dialysis Medical Association, said, "If a mass infection of patients occurs at a dialysis facility, the current medical system will not be able to deal with it. I want the government to respond with a sense of crisis." .

"A system that allows PCR tests to be carried out as soon as the symptoms worsen"

A doctor who examined a dialysis patient infected with the new coronavirus responded to an interview with NHK, saying, "I felt that if my dialysis patient became infected and the dialysis patient became infected, I had to treat it immediately, which would be fatal." did.

The doctor works in a Kansai clinic where approximately 100 people with severe kidney disease are undergoing dialysis treatment.

The trigger was that I was consulted by telephone from a patient who was visiting the hospital, saying, "I have fever in the 37's range, but can I receive dialysis treatment?"

The next day, the patient visited the clinic and the doctor guided him to a fever-separated space separated by a tent for dialysis.

After dialysis, my fever had risen, so I had him come the next day, and I prescribed a remedy for influenza just in case. However, he said that he suspected he might be infected with the new coronavirus because he had a fever for 3 days even after taking the remedy.

Regarding the condition of the patient at that time, the doctor said, "I had no symptoms such as dyspnea except for persistent fever, and no abnormalities were found in the chest X-ray film. However, because the remedy for influenza did not work, infection of the new corona I doubted. "

The doctor referred the patient to a medical institution designated as an infectious disease. As a result of detailed examination, he was suspected of having pneumonia and was admitted to the hospital. And the next day, it turned out to be infected with the new coronavirus.

Although the symptoms had subsided for a while, five days after being hospitalized, the symptoms suddenly worsened so that I could not breathe by myself.

At one point, it was said that "life doesn't help."

The patient was treated with a mechanical ventilator for recovery and was able to be discharged approximately 3 weeks after admission.

The doctor said, "I felt that if the dialysis patient became infected and the dialysis patient became infected, it would be life-threatening if not treated immediately. I was fortunate that I was able to undergo an early examination and be immediately admitted to an appropriate medical institution. It was. "

On top of that, he said, "In dialysis facilities, the beds are closely spaced and the space tends to be dense, and mass infections are likely to occur. If there is a patient with suspicious infection in the facility, I would like to have a system ready for PCR testing." It was