Dispatched a medical team to prevent clusters in facilities for the elderly in Osaka

While the spread of the new coronavirus has not stopped, Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City are trying to send a team of doctors and nurses to the facility from the initial stage of infection in order to prevent clusters from occurring in facilities for the elderly. I'm starting.

In order to prevent clusters from occurring when residents are confirmed to be infected at a facility for the elderly, Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City will dispatch a team of doctors and nurses at the initial stage to take measures against infection in the facility. We are making efforts to support such things.

Of these, a team of four people, including doctors and nurses, was dispatched to a facility for the elderly in Osaka City, where one resident was confirmed to be infected, three days after the infection was confirmed.

The team first instructed them on infection control in the facility and told them that the place to take off protective clothing etc. before returning from the red zone with infected residents should be separated from the area without infected people.

Furthermore, regarding the method of serving meals, until now, meals for all residents were placed on the cart and brought into each private room or dining room for distribution, but from now on, the cart will not be placed in the room and 1 I advised to reconsider how to carry only trays with food for people.

It is said that there are no new infected people at this facility so far, but it is difficult for the medical team to prevent infection in the facility if the number of infected people in Osaka Prefecture increases and the timing of dispatch is delayed. I am worried that it will be.

In the sixth wave of infection, clusters occurred in 997 facilities for the elderly in Osaka Prefecture, and at least 93 people died in the facilities.

Dr. Masanori Kobayashi of the medical team said, "If the number of facilities where infected people come out is increasing and we cannot keep up, there is a concern that many large-scale clusters will come out as in the 6th wave. I want to protect it. "