Patients are discharged from the New York Oncology Hospital in the U.S.A.
In New York, the United States, where the infection of the new coronavirus is getting worse, the medical situation is approaching the limit, and hospitals specializing in cancer patients are forced to discharge patients and respond to the increasing number of infected people .
In the eastern state of New York, where infections are the most widespread in the United States, general hospitals alone cannot cope, and specialty hospitals and camping hospitals installed in parks are also testing for viruses and accepting patients.
A pharmacist working at a hospital specializing in cancer patients in New York City, Sonoko Ogata, responded to an interview with NHK on Tuesday and temporarily discharged many cancer patients to accept people infected with the new coronavirus. , He said, that he had discontinued surgery indefinitely.
The hospital conducts more than 2,000 virus tests a day, and currently about 100 infected people are hospitalized.
Mr. Ogata commented on the situation of medical workers working at the forefront, saying, "At least about 10 people, including pharmacists, doctors and nurses, are infected in the hospital, and the remaining colleagues have to share work. At another New York City hospital where my friend works, healthcare workers have been infected and died, and I've heard that scared doctors and nurses have retired, '' she said. did.
Ogata also states that New York State is urging residents to stay at home, saying that the only way to reduce infection is to avoid meeting people. People infected with the new coronavirus have suddenly changed their symptoms. You may need to be treated in an intensive care unit very quickly, so you should stay at home as much as possible, not only to not get yourself infected, but to infect people. "