As the spread of the new corona continues worldwide, doctors in Kanagawa Prefecture are providing online medical consultations for Japanese living overseas in an attempt to alleviate concerns about the health of Japanese living overseas. ..

Online medical consultations are provided free of charge by doctors in the prefecture until December 25, targeting UAE = Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and Japanese living in Myanmar.



On the 17th, a doctor consulted with a female in her twenties living in Dubai to hear her physical condition and give advice on the third vaccination.



The woman said, "When I'm feeling sick, it's difficult to tell a foreign doctor in detail about my symptoms in English, so I used online consultation. It was encouraging to be told about the types of local medicines." rice field.



About 50 online medical consultations have been conducted so far, and the contents are wide-ranging, such as how to choose a local hospital and medicine, and whether it is better to get a new corona vaccine overseas.

Doctor "Consult in Japanese Maybe you can feel a little relieved"

Dr. Takashi Niwa said, "With the new corona, people living overseas have various anxieties because they cannot return to Japan immediately. There is a limit to what they can do online, but they can only consult in Japanese. So, I think you can feel a little relieved. "