In response to the outbreak of a cluster of 27 infected people at Fukushima Seibu Hospital, Fukushima City issued its own "emergency warning" in collaboration with the Medical Association on the 20th, and was infected with refraining from going out unnecessarily. We are calling for thorough preventive measures.
Mayor Kibata of Fukushima City held a press conference with Makoto Okano, Chairman of the Fukushima City Medical Association, following a large-scale cluster caused by a nosocomial infection at Fukushima Seibu Hospital.
According to it, out of 27 people who were confirmed to be infected at the
hospital
,
▽ inpatients were 13 people,
▽ staff such as nurses excluding doctors were 12 people, and
▽ 2 people went in and out for cleaning etc. That is.
It is the largest of the 18 clusters confirmed so far in the prefecture, and depending on the test results of the remaining inpatients and staff, the number of infected people may increase further.
Fukushima Seibu Hospital has suspended all emergency, outpatient, and new hospitalization acceptance since 19th, and Fukushima Red Cross Hospital has also suspended new emergency acceptance due to the effects of infected people.
For this reason, two out of ten "advanced life support medical institutions" that accept critically ill patients who require hospitalization or surgery are out of function in Fukushima City.
In Fukushima City, 43 beds, which is more than 70% of the 60 beds that accept people infected with the new coronavirus, are used, and support for accepting patients in Fukushima City at hospitals in other areas of the prefecture has already begun. ..
Mayor Kibata issued his own "new corona virus emergency warning" in collaboration with the Medical Association, saying that "it is extremely important to prevent infected people during the year-end and New Year holidays in order to protect the medical system."
Until January 3-day period of the alarm next year,
▽ and to refrain from going out of unnecessary non-urgent,
▽ refrain as long as the homecoming can, to spend in the same group as the usual, such as family,
▽ year-end party refrain, dinner is small・ It is required to
shorten the time, and to avoid the act of removing the mask such as eating and drinking in public and avoiding congestion at the time of the first visit.