Kanagawa Prefecture announced on the 20th that a man in his 50s who had been diagnosed with a mild illness and was admitted to an accommodation facility in the prefecture was confirmed dead in a room of the facility under medical treatment after being infected with the new coronavirus. Did.
According to Kanagawa Prefecture, the person who was confirmed dead was a man in his 50s in Yokohama City, who was found to be infected on the 17th of this month and was admitted to an accommodation facility in the prefecture from the next day.
At the facility, the nurse had been checking the physical condition by phone three times a day since the day before the man died, but at around 8:30 pm on the 20th, the nurse did not answer the phone, so the nurse was in the room after 9 pm When I visited, he was lying on the bed with cardiopulmonary arrest.
In the morning of the day he died, the oxygen saturation in his blood dropped to 93%, which is the prefectural hospitalization standard, and in the afternoon he was informed that he had multiple attacks of chronic heart disease. That is.
The nurse consulted with the doctor at the prefectural headquarters in charge of hospitalization adjustment twice, but it was decided that he would be followed up without being hospitalized.
In Kanagawa Prefecture, the bed usage rate was 79.9% as of the 20th of this month, and Kazuhiro Yoshida, the chief of the accommodation treatment section of the Kanagawa Prefecture Medical Crisis Countermeasures Headquarters, said, "Because the beds are tight, we have to continue accommodation treatment. It is very difficult to judge the risk of sudden changes when the bed is tight. "