In response to the tightening of the medical system due to the spread of the new coronavirus, Osaka City cooperated with medical institutions such as securing a new bed in December to expand the patient's saucer. I decided to give money.

This was revealed to reporters by Mayor Matsui of Osaka City on the 11th.



According to this, the target is medical institutions in Osaka City that have decided to secure new beds for the new corona by December 31 and to become a new patient receiving institution, and next year 3 If the bed is continuously operated until the month, 10 million yen will be issued per bed.



A total of 1319 beds have been secured in Osaka Prefecture for the new corona, but the degree of tightness is increasing not only for severe but also mild and moderate beds, and the city wants to secure 100 beds through this support. It is said.



Mayor Matsui said, "Even if it is difficult to accept critically ill patients, the burden on the medical field will be reduced just by expanding the number of patients with mild and moderate illness. We would like to recruit hospitals that will cooperate."



In addition, regarding the request for shortening the business hours issued to restaurants offering alcoholic beverages in Osaka / Kita Ward and Chuo Ward, he said, "In the current situation, it is possible to extend the request." He expressed his intention to discuss with Osaka Prefecture based on the infection situation of.

Chairman of Osaka Prefectural Hospital Association "It is quite difficult to increase the number of new beds"

Regarding the decision by the city of Osaka to grant a cooperation fund of 10 million yen to medical institutions such as securing new beds, Hiroshi Sasaki, chairman of the Osaka Prefectural Hospital Association, which is made at a hospital in Osaka Prefecture, said, "10 million yen is very expensive. It's expensive, and it's easy to see that the beds in Osaka City are full. I think there are hospitals that raise their hands, but that doesn't mean that the number of nurses will increase, so we will increase the number of beds for corona. I feel that it is quite difficult. Hospitals that are already accepting patients with the new corona and have zoning that divides the range of action of infected and uninfected people are doing their best to increase the number of beds by one or two. I wonder if there is any. "