On the 2nd, a municipal clinic was opened in Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture, where there were still no medical institutions even after the evacuation order due to the nuclear accident was partially lifted.
In Okuma Town, where the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is located, some evacuation orders were lifted in April, but there have been no medical institutions in the town so far, and you have to go to a nearby municipality to receive medical treatment. did.
Okuma Town opened an internal medicine clinic near the town hall because it was able to secure doctors, and started medical treatment on the 2nd.
The clinic is a steel-framed one-story building, and consultations are only available on Tuesday mornings for the time being, but the town will consider adding consultation days and departments based on the needs of the residents.
Since there is no dispensing pharmacy in the town, you can not receive it immediately unless you go outside the town, except for medicines such as painkillers, but if you fax the prescription to the pharmacy in Naraha town, you can receive it at this clinic the next day. It means that you can do it.
You can also ask a pharmacy in Hirono-cho at the online consultation corner in the clinic to have it mailed to your home.
Dr. Kenshiro Yamauchi of the Okuma Town Clinic said, "I want to listen carefully to the voices of the residents and work on health promotion. There are some things that the clinic cannot do, so I would like to work in cooperation with neighboring hospitals." I did.
Jun Yoshida, the mayor of Okuma Town, said, "People who have already returned to the town have suffered a great deal of inconvenience because they do not have a medical institution. I'm looking forward to it. "
Neighboring residents "I'm happy" "I want you to build a dispensing pharmacy"
Regarding the opening of the clinic in Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture, a 70-year-old man living nearby said, "Some people do not have a car or cannot drive, so it is nice to have a clinic within walking distance. It's been 10 years since the earthquake, and I'm watching the reconstruction gradually. "
A 77-year-old man said, "Even if you have a clinic nearby, if you need to go out of town to get medicine right away, you should go to your doctor. People will come back to town. For that reason, I would like you to listen to the voices of the townspeople and build a dispensing pharmacy nearby. "