Due to the rapid spread of the new coronavirus, some Ukrainians who have taken refuge in the country are beginning to be infected.
In some cases, they have come to Japan without having been vaccinated, and the doctor who examined them pointed out the need for support, saying, "I feel uneasy because of the language barrier."
On the 29th of last month, a clinic that conducts home visits mainly in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, visited evacuees from Ukraine staying at an accommodation facility in Tokyo at the request of a public health center.
All three women living away from their parents were infected with the new coronavirus, and one of them, a 15-year-old woman, had a fever of 38 degrees and a sore throat. .
Doctors confirmed that the woman had never been vaccinated.
She also had an over-the-counter medicine for fever, but because the instructions were written in Japanese, she couldn't tell what kind of medicine it was, so she couldn't take it.
For this reason, the doctor explained to the woman how to take her, such as taking two tablets at a time in English, and prescribed a new cough medicine, and treated her.
According to 'Our World in Data', a website run by researchers at the University of Oxford, England, the percentage of people who have completed vaccination in Ukraine was February 27, before the Russian military invasion got underway. It was 34.8% at the time of , but the update has stopped since then.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, those who are evacuees from Ukraine and who have been granted a "designated activities" status of residence that allows them to work and stay for one year are eligible for national health insurance, and all medical expenses related to the new corona are public funds. In some local governments, evacuated people are vaccinated.
Kosuke Sekiya, director of the "Green Forest Daikanyama Clinic" said, "The people who evacuated were not with their parents, and there was a language barrier. People who have not been vaccinated may be at high risk of being infected with Corona in Japan, so I would like to continue to support them by making house calls."