With the spread of highly infectious Omicron strains and concerns about a rapid increase in home caregivers, Tokyo Nerima Ward held an urgent online meeting and collaborated with doctors and pharmacists in local clinics to change the physical condition of home caregivers. I confirmed that I would proceed with health observation to see if there was any.
In order to secure a medical care provision system amid the spread of Omicron strains, the national government will review measures such as hospitalizing all positive individuals in areas where infection is rapidly spreading, and allow medical treatment at accommodation facilities and homes according to symptoms. However, the issue is how to proceed with the health observation of home care recipients.
Under these circumstances, about 40 people in charge of the health center, medical association, pharmacist association, etc. held an urgent online meeting on the night of the 8th in Nerima-ku, Tokyo.
Among these, for home care patients who are found to be positive at their clinic, the doctor at the clinic where they first consulted will continue to observe their health, and the pharmacist will deliver the prescribed medicine to the home care provider. We confirmed the framework of local medical support.
Doctors from 170 clinics in the ward cooperate in this initiative, and if patients from other clinics also consult, the "Medical Association Support Center" will coordinate and 70 doctors will work. I will correspond.
Haruko Mukaiyama, director of the Nerima Ward Health Center, said, "Like the 5th wave, people who should be hospitalized should be hospitalized, and those who should not be hospitalized should be treated at home. Is important. I want to cooperate with medical institutions and the government and respond in a regional all-out battle. "