The year-end and New Year holidays did not stop the increase in the number of people infected with the new coronavirus.
In the medical field, medical staff worked hard as the beds continued to be tight.
At Kyorin University Hospital in Mitaka City, Tokyo, which treats moderately and severely ill patients who need to be hospitalized, new patients were accepted one after another for the six days of the year-end and New Year holidays up to the 3rd.
The beds of infected people have been nearly full since November last year, but during the year-end and New Year holidays, all the beds prepared for corona patients were filled, so we hurriedly renewed at the beginning of the year. It means that he secured a bed and hospitalized the patient.
In addition, people suspected of being infected came to the emergency outpatient department one after another.
At the hospital, assuming that the number of patients will increase due to medical institution closures during the year-end and New Year holidays, if there is fever, the outpatient department will be divided into patients with mild symptoms and patients with relatively severe symptoms, and the number of staff will be increased. ..
Since January 1st of the new year, the number of patients with mild fever has increased sharply, and it has almost doubled.
Professor Hiroshi Hasegawa of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Kyorin University Hospital said, "As the number of people suspected of being infected increases, we tried to accept patients while maintaining the quality of medical care, and managed to survive the year-end and New Year holidays, but it was a heavy burden on the site. In the future, if the number of infected people increases, more ingenuity will be needed to make it compatible with medical treatment other than corona. "