The Tokyo metropolitan government has revealed that a facility in the city that aims to treat people infected with the new coronavirus who need nursing care mistook the residents and mistakenly gave them the wrong medicine.
The city has decided to prevent a recurrence because the effects of drugs on health have not been confirmed.
According to the metropolitan government, two men in their 80s who were confirmed to be infected with the new corona at a special nursing home in Tokyo on the 24th of last month entered together in a sanatorium in the city for infected people who need nursing care. Did.
After that, one of the two recovered, so on the 1st of this month, the sanatorium told the special nursing home the name of the person who recovered and returned, but the person who actually returned was another one. Because it was a person, it was only then that it was found that the sanatorium had mistaken the two people for the first time.
They each brought medicine for their chronic illnesses, and the person in charge of the nursing home mistakenly gave them the wrong medicine, but so far, the medicine has not been confirmed to have any effect on their health.
At the facility, when entering the facility, the identity is confirmed by declaring the name and clothing, but it was difficult for the two to communicate and it was not possible to sufficiently confirm.
The city wants to prevent recurrence by having the facility where the person was transported wear a band with their name on it or write their name on their belongings.