In Chiba City, the number of people confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus is decreasing, and the number of emergency transports is also decreasing, but there are still many cases where a hospital to accept emergency patients cannot be found, and specialists are tight on dedicated beds. It is pointed out that it is necessary to hurry to resolve the problem.
In Chiba City, the number of emergency patients transported in the week leading up to the 31st of last month has decreased by nearly 20% compared to the highest number in early January.
However, if you are complaining of fever or suffocation, there are still many cases where you are refused acceptance because of possible infection, and out of the 619 cases that the ambulance crew made inquiries to medical institutions, 5 or more inquiries are required. The number of cases was 53, which was close to 10%.
In addition, there were 16 cases where inquiries were required 10 times or more, and in some cases, no recipient was found for 2 hours or more.
A man from the rescue team said, "I couldn't find a destination and couldn't move for more than an hour from the scene, so there were some severe cases."
Medical institutions accepting patients with the new corona have remained at a high rate of use of dedicated beds, and it remains difficult to accept new patients.
For this reason, Chiba Prefecture has begun efforts to secure transfer destinations for patients who need to be hospitalized for treatment of chronic diseases even after the recovery of the new corona, and to list and share them.
Professor Hisashi Matsumoto of Nippon Medical School, who is familiar with emergency medical care, said, "If we increase the number of beds for inpatients in Corona at the core hospitals, it will affect normal medical care. Other hospitals are acute care hospitals. It is necessary to increase the turnover rate of acute care hospitals by becoming a saucer for the hospital. "