While some medical institutions are closed during the Bon Festival, patients complaining of fever and sore throat are visiting clinics that continue to treat fever outpatients in Kawachinagano City, Osaka.
The clinic in Kawachinagano City, Osaka, continues to treat only fever outpatients on the 14th and 15th during the Obon period.
Patients who are suspected of being infected are asked to wait in the car and undergo PCR tests, but the patients are visiting at nearly twice the usual pace.
On the 14th, 56 out of 67 people who underwent a PCR test were positive, and more than 80% of those who were treated were infected with the new corona.
On the 15th, we received a series of calls from patients complaining of fever and sore throat.
This clinic can treat up to about 100 people a day, but if the number exceeds that, we may have to refuse admission, so we are watching the infection situation in the future.
Takuro Mizuno, director of the Mizuno Clinic, said, ``If you use antiviral drugs early, you can prevent aggravation, so in order not to delay treatment, we also treat patients during the Bon Festival. Especially for elderly people and those with underlying diseases, I hope that they will see a doctor as soon as possible.”