In Sumida Ward, Tokyo, in order to prevent the bed for accepting patients with the new coronavirus from becoming tight, we started accepting patients who recovered from the new corona in the general bed in cooperation with local medical institutions from January. Two months after starting the initiative, the number of people waiting for hospitalization continues to be zero.
In Sumida Ward, Tokyo, in order to prevent the tightness of the bed of "Tokyo Metropolitan Sumida Hospital", which accepts critically ill patients in Corona, from the end of January, we will cooperate with medical institutions in the ward to set the national discharge standard. Two months have passed since we started an initiative to transfer patients who are satisfied and still need inpatient treatment such as rehabilitation to a general sickbed.
So far, about 100 recovery patients have been transferred, and the number of waiting for hospitalization, which was often about 30 at most, has been zero for two months.
One of the factors is that the number of patients who need to be hospitalized is decreasing in Sumida Ward, and the number of medical institutions that cooperate with us has increased from seven to nine, and the acceptance system has expanded.
From late February to this month, even when a cluster occurred at a nursing care facility in the ward, all of them were able to be hospitalized and treated in a dedicated bed for corona patients.
Furthermore, in Sumida Ward, the policy is to promote the listing of medical institutions that can diagnose "corona sequelae" in the ward, and to create a medical system that can respond according to the patient's symptoms and degree.
Toru Nishizuka, director of the Sumida Ward Health Center, said, "If you gain experience in accepting and take proper measures against infection, many hospitals will be informed that the infection will not spread, and the number of medical institutions that cooperate has increased. We would like to create a system in which local medical resources play their respective roles, and even if many infected people come out, medical care will not be strained. "