オミクロン株の急拡大で都内のクリニックには発熱などの症状を訴えてくる人が相次いでいますが、対応できる件数を超えていて、断らざるをえない状況になっています。



医師は重症化リスクのある高齢者を優先するなど、濃淡をつけざるをえないと危機感を強めています。

At clinics that have a fever outpatient clinic in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, and carry out PCR tests, there are a series of inquiries about people who complain of fever and who want to have their own tests because their families have been infected.



At the clinic, the number of reservations that can be accommodated in a fever outpatient department is limited to 12 people, except for family patients, but it is almost filled up by the day before, so we have to decline the request on the day.



This situation continues every day, and there are days when the number of people who refused has reached 60.



The case where there are many inquiries due to the rapid expansion of Omicron strains is "I want you to inspect yourself because my family has been infected."



A woman in her 70s contacted her because her husband was infected and was hospitalized, so she asked her to see her.



Women say they only have coughing symptoms, but doctors have said that if they are positive, they are older and may be more severe and would like to consider taking the new Corona medication. rice field.



In addition to these fever outpatients, the clinic also visits home caregivers, and in order to maintain the clinic without exhausting staff, elderly people at risk of becoming severe or patients with underlying illness, In addition, we have to give priority to essential workers involved in medical care and long-term care, which is increasing the sense of crisis.



Hiroo Hideo, director of Shinjuku Hiro Clinic, said, "There is no choice but to limit the treatment of young people to some extent, and elderly people are at high risk of becoming seriously ill, so it is necessary to closely monitor them and provide early treatment. I have to aim for a form that provides the necessary medical care to the people who need it with shades. I am worried that the age group is gradually increasing to those in their 60s, 70s, and 80s. " rice field.

Fever outpatients are tight and hospital operations are increasing

発熱外来がひっ迫する中、クリニックでは週に3回、スタッフ間でオンラインミーティングを開いていて、現状や課題の共有を進めています。



28日に開かれたミーティングでは、発熱外来を訪れた人の陽性率が50％になるなど高くなってきていることや、保健所からの依頼で、患者の自宅に赴いてPCR検査を行うケースが増えているなど、業務が立て込んでいることが報告されました。



医師はこうした業務の増加に対応するため、土日や夜間の人繰りをどうするか、日々頭を悩ませているといいます。



新宿ヒロクリニックの英 裕雄院長は「通常の診療に加えて、発熱者の対応、ワクチン接種、往診やPCR検査と非常に業務が増えている。今、クリニックのスタッフで陽性者や濃厚接触者は出ていないが、これだけ感染が広がっているので、今後、起きてもおかしくないことだと思っている。スタッフが少なくなっても業務を維持できるよう考える必要がある」と話していました。