At university hospitals in Osaka Prefecture, where the medical system of the new Corona continues to be in crisis, severely ill patients are being transported one after another even during the Golden Week holidays, and the temporarily increased beds are quickly filled up.
The condition of people waiting at home has deteriorated without being treated, and the number of cases of being brought in is increasing, and hospitals are becoming more vulnerable.
As of the 4th, the number of severely ill patients with the new corona in Osaka Prefecture has risen to 449, exceeding the number of severely ill beds that have been secured, and the critical situation of treatment at a hospital for moderate illness continues.
At the request of the prefecture, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital in Takatsuki City, Osaka, has increased the number of seriously ill beds by 2 on the 1st of this month and 2 more on the 2nd, apart from the ICU = intensive care unit.
The hospital has a total of 14 critical beds, but all the beds were filled that day and remained full until the 5th.
The hospital accepts critically ill patients by transferring relatively stable patients to a moderately ill hospital, but even during the Golden Week holidays, when the sickbed became vacant, there was an immediate call for new acceptance. ..
According to the hospital, after entering the "4th wave", the number of infected people increased rapidly and they could not be hospitalized immediately, and their condition deteriorated during medical treatment at home or hotel, and the number of patients being transported is increasing. At that time, more than half of the 11 hospitalized patients, 6 were these.
A man in his thirties, who was transported on the 2nd of this month, was finally able to enter the hotel where he was being treated five days after the infection was confirmed, but his symptoms worsened, including a decrease in oxygen saturation in his blood.
Four days later, on the 26th of last month, I was finally admitted to a hospital for moderate illness, but my symptoms worsened and the next day I fell into a severe condition requiring a ventilator.
It was five more days later that he was taken to this hospital, which treats critically ill patients.
Osamu Umegaki, director of the intensive care unit at Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, said, "If I could have been admitted to a moderate hospital earlier than the hotel treatment, it might not have been serious." He pointed out that it may be increasing the number of patients who do.
In addition, Umegaki said, "The number of patients who can receive treatment earlier at a moderate hospital is decreasing. The beds may be full for both moderate and severe cases, and the lives that can be saved may not be saved." Was revealed.