There are also restrictions on treatment for power outages and water outages at 55 hospitals in Chiba Prefecture on September 10 at 18:02

Under the influence of Typhoon No. 15, the prefecture summary has revealed that power outages and water outages continue at more than 50 medical institutions in Chiba Prefecture that have the function of accepting inpatients.

According to Chiba Prefecture, out of 313 medical institutions that have the function of accepting hospitalized patients in the prefecture, power outages and water outages continue at 55 locations.

Of these, the disaster base hospital also had a power outage at “Kimitsu Chuo Hospital” in Kisarazu City and “Chiba Cardiovascular Center” in Ichihara City, and continued to use the in-house generator for treatment. That is.

Some of the medical institutions that are out of power have no private generators and treatment is limited, and there are places where there is not enough fuel to supply even if there is a generator. It means that we are supporting.

On the 10th, the temperature in the prefecture increased and we observed a very hot day, but some hospitals had insufficient power and could not use cooling.

In the prefecture, we will continue to check the status of medical institutions and support them individually as requested.