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“The death toll is on the rise because we have left senior facility clusters unattended. To convey that, we have asked Governor Yoshimura four times since August last year to make an urgent request for a new facility for the coronavirus outbreak. Ha sent a book.
But no response was given and all were ignored. There was no improvement in the government response. “
It is Mr. Yasufumi Kiba, Secretary General of the Osaka Association of Long-Term Care Health Centers, who is a member of the Osaka Prefectural Long-Term Health Center, who expresses his resentment.
Osaka prefecture has the highest number of deaths from the new coronavirus in Japan. As of January 27, the cumulative death toll was 880.
“The cumulative number of infected people is double in Tokyo, but the number of deaths is reversed. That is why the death rate in Osaka is high,” said a reporter for a national newspaper.
The background to this is the increase in infections among the elderly.
According to the Osaka Prefecture announcement, 390 people died from October 10 to January 5 last year. Of these, 97.7% were over 60 years old.
In fact, since last fall, clusters have been occurring one after another in senior-related facilities in the prefecture. That number was over 100!
Mr. Kiba points out that there was a problem treating the infection after it was discovered.
“Older people are said to be at high risk of becoming serious when infected with the new coronavirus. However, even if the PCR test comes back positive, they will not be immediately hospitalized if they are asymptomatic. Keep it in the facility because. it is full “.
Even if you say that you can prevent the spread of infection in your facility, there are limits to what you can do. With this, it is natural for groupings to occur here and there. “
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