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Ambulance transporting suddenly sick people = at the North Fire Station in the city of Mito
In the city of Hitachi, Ibaraki prefecture, in the middle of this month, it took around three hours to determine the emergency transport destination for people infected with the new coronavirus. From the scene, there are voices that say that “Corona is the bottleneck.”
According to the city fire department, which has jurisdiction over the city of Hitachi, a man in his seventies who had been infected with corona and was being treated at home complained of symptoms of brain disease on the 14th and was numbered. 119. Emergency personnel who rushed to the hospital consulted two nearby hospitals for acceptance, but were rejected for reasons such as “I cannot handle corona patients.”
In parallel with the consultations with medical institutions, contact the prefectural hospitalization coordination headquarters through the health center. About one hour and forty-five minutes after the ambulance arrived, it was decided to transport it to a medical institution in Tsuchiura City, but it took an hour and ten minutes to move.
A person in charge of the Hitachi City Fire Department is surprised: “Usually, even if you contact a medical institution, it is often decided first. It is unlikely to take that long.”
In the city of Hitachi, six “emergency transportation difficulties” occurred during the week of 11-17. The person in charge said: “I don’t know” about the relationship with the narrowness of the bed caused by the corona disease, but notes that “if corona is suspected, such as fever, a medical institution will be installed.” “
On the other hand, according to the Mito City Fire Department, which has jurisdiction over Mito City and Shirosato City, there are 24 weekly “difficult cases” from 11 to 17, and 20 from the last 18 to 24. It was an issue .
During this period, a number of infected people at Mito Red Cross Hospital stopped accepting emergency outpatients. Takashi Iizuka, head of the emergency department of the Mito City Fire Department, explains: “Because the Mito Red Cross Hospital, which has the largest number of beds in the city, stopped accepting patients, beds in the city’s medical institutions were quite full. “
The Red Cross Hospital of Mito reopened part of the ambulatory emergency service on the 25th, but the infection continues to spread. Mr. Iizuka maintains a sense of tension and says, “Winter is a time when there is a lot of transportation. There is concern that transportation will become difficult in the future.” (Shinichiro Matsumura)
