Isolated Juntendo Hospital outpatient treatment resumed by record heavy rain Saga, Omachi-cho, Sept. 9, 15:40
Outpatient treatment resumed at a hospital in Omachi-cho, Saga Prefecture, which was isolated for two days after being flooded by record heavy rain at the end of last month.
Omachicho's “Juntendo Hospital” was inhabited by patients and residents who had been evacuated to hospitals because the 1st floor was used by the oily water spilled from nearby factories due to the record heavy rain on the 28th of last month. A total of over 180 people were isolated for two days.
Afterwards, as a result of self-defense forces and hospital staff working on restoration work, outpatient treatment resumed on the 9th.
A lot of patients visited the waiting room from 9am before the start of medical care, and a woman in her 60s who came to the hospital from Taku City, Saga Prefecture, said, “I came out first in the morning when I heard that outpatient clinics will resume today. I was relieved, but I am relieved to resume. "
However, according to hospitals, medical equipment used for X-ray examinations and CT examinations can no longer be used due to inundation, and medical examinations using such equipment cannot be performed for the time being.