At hospitals in Tokyo that accept patients with the new coronavirus, we are responding by limiting the number of outpatients because the number of pregnant women who have been infected has increased and the number of obstetricians and gynecologists is tight. ..
According to the Japan Obstetrics and Gynecology Association, the number of pregnant women reported to be infected in Tokyo is 1141 in the last month, the highest number ever.
At Ebara Hospital, a new type of corona hospital in Ota Ward, Tokyo, the number of infected pregnant women was 47 in one year last year, but this is 36 in less than two months until the 18th. ..
Most of them are mild or asymptomatic, but it is necessary to pay particular attention to physical condition management during hospitalization such as the possibility of labor pain at night, so we decide to give birth by caesarean section to reduce the risk of infection.
There are four full-time obstetricians and gynecologists at this hospital, and there are also part-time doctors, but even after becoming a new corona specialty hospital, the obstetrics and gynecology department is also examining pregnant women and patients other than infected people, and it is a manual operation. It is said to be in the last minute.
Hospitals are responding by limiting the number of outpatients and postponing non-urgent surgery.
Dr. Makoto Ikebukuro of Ebara Hospital said, "On the 17th, there was a new request to accept 6 people, but we accepted only 3 people to prepare for safe delivery. The infection has not settled down yet, and this I think it will be serious if the condition continues. "