On the 13th, it will be three years since a patient infected with the new coronavirus died for the first time in Japan.
At that time, the hospital in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, which was treating the patient, responded to an interview for the first time, looking back on the response at the time when there was no established treatment method, and saying that many elderly people are still dying, and that there is a risk of becoming seriously ill. I appealed that I want you to continue to take infection measures that are considerate of people.
The interview was conducted by the National Hospital Organization Sagamihara Hospital, which treated a woman in her 80s who died of the new coronavirus for the first time in Japan on February 13, 2020.
According to the hospital, the woman was brought to the hospital with symptoms of severe pneumonia at the time, but it took a long time to test, and the staff wore a high-performance medical mask called "N95" without knowing whether it was corona or not. It means that there was no choice but to administer drugs that suppress excessive immune reactions in a private room that can be isolated.
The woman was confirmed to have coronavirus after she died a week after being hospitalized. It was frustrating. I felt that the novel coronavirus could become a deadly disease right in front of me,” he recalled.
After that, until the 8th wave of infection, the hospital accepted 988 hospitalizations by the 13th, and 71 people, including the elderly, died.
Ken Adachi, director of the hospital, said, "The number of cases in which elderly people die is not uncommon, and it's not a situation for hospitals to relax. I want them to think about infection control while thinking about the fact that there are people who are at risk of becoming seriously ill." I was talking.