In order to provide medical support in Osaka Prefecture, where the medical system is tight due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the Ministry of Defense has placed two locations, including the "Osaka Corona Severe Center," which will start operation on the 15th of this month, including nurses. We have decided to dispatch about people.

On the 11th, we are expected to receive a disaster dispatch request from Osaka Prefecture and decide to dispatch.

In Osaka Prefecture, where the infection continues to spread, the operation of the "Osaka Corona Severe Center", a medical facility dedicated to critically ill patients, will begin on the 15th of this month, but Governor Yoshimura dispatched a disaster to the Self-Defense Forces because the required number of nurses could not be secured. Showed the idea of ​​requesting.



Under these circumstances, it was found that the Ministry of Defense has decided to dispatch about 7 people including nurses to the "Osaka Corona Severe Center" and the Prefectural Nakakawachi Emergency and Critical Care Center in Higashi Osaka City.



Of these, the team dispatched to the "Osaka Corona Severe Center" will include nurses with high skills who can handle nursing in the ICU = intensive care unit belonging to the Defense Medical College in Saitama Prefecture. ..



In addition, adjustments are being made by setting the dispatch period to about two weeks, and it is expected that the dispatch will be decided upon receiving a disaster dispatch request from Osaka Prefecture on the 11th.



The Self-Defense Forces has dispatched 10 nurses and others to medical support from the 9th in Asahikawa City, Hokkaido, where a group of infected people = clusters are occurring one after another at medical institutions.