In April, restrictions on holidays and overtime for working doctors will begin, and in the Saku region of Nagano Prefecture, general practitioners will be providing medical care such as internal medicine on weekday nights in order to reduce the burden on working doctors. The center has been opened.
Starting in April, based on the Labor Standards Act, the upper limit on holidays and overtime work for working doctors was regulated to 960 hours a year.
In conjunction with this, a new medical center has been opened at Asama General Hospital in Saku City, which will be open from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on weekdays to treat internal medicine and pediatric patients with relatively mild symptoms such as fever and abdominal pain. I will be in charge of the medical examination.
Medical practitioners from the Saku region, which is made up of 11 municipalities including Komoro City and Karuizawa Town, will mainly conduct the examinations, and the two medical associations in this area will coordinate the doctors in charge.
Patients wishing to be seen must contact the center by phone in advance.
Until now, even patients with relatively mild symptoms were treated by doctors working at hospitals with emergency departments, so this is expected to lead to a reduction in the burden.
Dr. Minoru Okada, who was in charge on the first day of the facility's opening, said, ``If hospital doctors are forced to work long hours, residents may find it difficult to go to the hospital.I hope that medical practitioners and others can work together to help.'' Ta.