“Searching for an invisible scream” Supporting the DMAT base hospital Chiba Tateyama September 11, 17:31
In Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture, where power outages due to the typhoon have continued, more than three times as many patients have visited the local disaster base hospitals. I have a medical examination.
Disaster prevention hospital “Abo Community Medical Center” in Tateyama City has recovered from the power outage on the evening of the 9th, but many hospitals in the region have not yet been able to resume medical treatment. People who seek prescriptions are constantly visiting.
A number of people complaining of heat stroke and being transported by ambulance, and according to hospitals, more than three times as many patients are accepted, and some staff such as doctors and nurses are busy working until late at night. Some people can't go home.
For this reason, DMAT made by doctors and nurses will support from 11th, and teams dispatched from Saitama Prefecture and Tochigi Prefecture arrived at the hospital one after another. A male doctor who entered support from a hospital in Saitama Prefecture supported an emergency outpatient clinic where he was short of manpower. He continued to live in a home where power outages continued and was complaining of an 85-year-old woman who complained of “feeling bad”.
In Chiba prefecture, 87 teams gathered from the Kanto region including the prefecture as of the 11th.
Dr. Yuya Kimura, who consulted, said, “It is our job to search for invisible screams, so we want to be close to the patient and help the region need it.”
In addition, the director of the Awa community medical center emergency department Akira Fujie said, “We decided that it was not a disaster that could be handled by ourselves, and asked for support to continue medical treatment. I have to think about how to deal with it. "