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It has been 25 days and a week since the prefecture’s own state of emergency was announced due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus infection. The number of new infected people has been in the 40s for the last two days, but on the 23rd it reached 132, the second highest number in the past, and the situation is repeating advances and setbacks. On the 25th, the prefecture announced that it had expanded the number of crown-insured patient beds in the prefecture to 560. The idea is to stop the “health care collapse” in which the citizens of the prefecture cannot receive care. necessary medical. (Mikinari Miyao)
So far, 39 medical institutions have secured 410 beds (including 56 beds for the seriously ill) in the prefecture.
Governor Kazuhiko Oikawa has indicated that he will increase the number of beds to 500 by the end of January, but he was ahead of schedule due to the rapid increase in infected people. Up to 470 beds were stacked on the 22nd and up to 560 beds on the 25th. As a result, the average rate of bed utilization over the last week has decreased slightly.
It was planned to increase the number of beds for critically ill patients to 70, but since the rate of use of beds in critical condition is lower than the rate of general use, the expansion has been suspended in consideration of compatibility with medical care for other diseases. .
The prefecture is requesting that beds be secured in addition to the 39 medical institutions. Since it is necessary to ensure a flow line and enough nurses to prevent nosocomial infections, we are adjusting whether it is acceptable or not.
As of day 25, there were 261 hospitalized patients (14 seriously ill). The governor explained that the request for the issuance of a state of emergency to the government will be considered when the use rate exceeds 60% (300 people), with the upper limit of the prefectural bed insurance plan of “500 beds” as a denominator. .doing.
At a press conference in the prefectural office that day, Norio Doshinda, head of the medical policy section, said: “(The expansion of beds) places a considerable burden on the hospital. We are doing it with a balance between the community medicine and the last minute. While there are restrictions on new outpatients, there are no major restrictions on hospitalization or surgery. “
The prefecture issued its own state of emergency from February 18 to 7. We are asking restaurants throughout the prefecture to shorten their business hours (refrain from doing business from 8:00 pm to 5:00 am the next day) and we are asking citizens of the prefecture to refrain from going out.
