In preparation for the simultaneous epidemic of the new coronavirus and influenza, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has announced that it has established a system that can treat up to 900,000 patients per day, exceeding the national peak estimate.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare assumes that there will be 450,000 new corona patients per day and 300,000 influenza patients per day at the peak of the simultaneous epidemic that is feared this winter, and that 750,000 patients per day will be treated. I was asking to make a plan that strengthened the system that can be done.
As a result, prefectural governments estimate that there will be 810,000 patients at the peak of the epidemic, and as of last month, a system capable of treating up to 900,000 patients per day has been established.
The breakdown was 870,000 for fever outpatient clinics for people at high risk of severe illness, and 23,000 for telephone and online consultations.
It can treat 550,000 patients a day on Saturdays and 230,000 patients a day on Sundays and public holidays.
In addition, when we requested that the health follow-up center, which registers people who are at low risk of becoming seriously ill and test positive for the new coronavirus in a self-test, strengthen their response, a system was in place that could register up to 200,000 people per day. about it.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will publish the medical system by prefecture on its website on the 2nd.