As the infection with the new coronavirus spreads rapidly, clinics in Tokyo that carry out PCR tests even during the Obon festival, when many medical institutions are closed, are flooded with applications from people who complain of fever and other symptoms. increase.
The clinic in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, which has a fever outpatient clinic during the Obon festival, was constantly receiving calls from people who wished to have the test from the morning of the 14th.
This week, due to the fact that the surrounding medical institutions are closed, there are applications that greatly exceed the capacity every day, and at the clinic, nurses listen to the symptoms over the phone and accept reservations with priority given to those who are highly suspected of being positive. I have.
On the 14th, we increased the number of reservations for fever outpatients, but it soon became full and we had to decline many applications.
The nurse in charge of the reservation said, "It would be nice if the person who refused the reservation could see another person, but it is difficult to make a reservation anywhere. Even if I knew it, I was frustrated to refuse it."
The director of the clinic said, "The situation will continue where we will have to decline the application for PCR tests even after the Obon festival is over due to the rapid spread of infection. There is a risk. In such a crisis situation, we should share what our local family doctors, who were not previously involved in corona testing and examination, can do. "