In order to maintain the medical care system during the year-end and New Year holidays, the Tokyo metropolitan government will provide medical care on the same scale as on weekdays, and will operate an "online fever medical center" 24 hours a day. To do.
During the year-end and New Year holidays, many medical institutions are closed for fever outpatient clinics, so from December 29th to January 3rd, 12 metropolitan hospitals will have approximately 1,000 fever outpatients per day, the same scale as on weekdays. We will maintain a system that allows medical treatment in
Among them, Toshima Hospital in Itabashi Ward has newly set up a prefabricated medical space outside the hospital building to prepare for an increase in fever patients.
By examining patients with fever symptoms in this space 24 hours a day, a maximum of 160 people can be treated per day, and Toshima Hospital will maintain this situation for the time being after the year-end and New Year holidays.
Masayuki Ando, the director of Toshima Hospital, said, "I want to create a medical system in Tokyo that can properly treat fever patients so that everyone does not have to worry about fever."
In addition, the metropolitan government will operate the "Online Fever Medical Center", which examines people who have symptoms suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus, 24 hours a day during the year-end and New Year holidays.