Typhoon No. 19: Welfare temporary housing for disaster-stricken residents completed.
A resident of a special elderly nursing home in Kawagoe-shi, Saitama, which was flooded by typhoon 19 last year, will be able to live with care while the facility is restored. became.
Last year's Typhoon No. 19, the Kawagoe King's Garden, a special elderly nursing home in Kawagoe City, was flooded by a nearby river and flooded, and even five months after the typhoon, another 73 people were moving in. I am forced to live in a welfare facility.
Under these circumstances, Saitama Prefecture spent over 640 million yen on the site of an elementary school in Kawagoe City to develop temporary welfare housing that allows residents to live while receiving nursing care until the facility is restored.
The facility is a light steel framed one-story building, the exterior looks like a normal temporary house, but the inside of the building eliminates steps such as corridors, and the toilet and bathroom space is made wide so that it is easy to assist .
According to Saitama Prefecture, the construction of a large-scale welfare temporary housing is the second case in Japan following Atsuma-cho, Hokkaido, and 73 people who have evacuated will start moving in next month.
"Kawagoe King's Garden" will be relocated to a location about 3 km away from its current location, and residents will live in temporary welfare housing until the facility is completed in March, two years later. It becomes.