Corona virus spread … Medical site near collapse due to rapid increase in infection … Frustrated by government without sense of crisis: Tokyo Shimbun TOKYO Web

Due to the re-expansion of the new coronavirus infection, the health care system in various parts of the country is in danger of collapse. The expression of Toshio Nakagawa, president of the Japan Medical Association (Nichii), who said so at a press conference on the 25th, was abrupt. The Advisory Council, an expert organization that advises the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, also indicated on the 24th that “if this situation continues, we will not be able to save lives.” Doctors are frustrated that executives do not share a “strong sense of crisis.” (Yasushi Inoue, Daiki Fujikawa, Ryo Harada, Haruyasu Tsuchiya)

◆ There will be a shortage of beds and medical staff

The bed begins to fill up. As of the 24th, there were 376 seriously ill people nationwide, an increase of 100 from a week ago.

The number of beds that can be accepted at the peak of the infection seems affordable, but the number of beds at the peak is the sum of the maximum number of beds that can be accepted by the prefecture of medical institutions. As it were, it is an “objective value”.

Wakita chairLong word（Takaji）・ The director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases emphasized at a press conference on the 24th, “Even if a bed is prepared like a box, doctors and nurses are needed there. It is not easy to increase the number of such people.” Japan Medical AssociationKama 萢（Kamayatsu）“It feels like it’s impossible to prepare more beds,” Toshi said.

◆ Tokyo is the most difficult

“In the bedstrength（Pull）Tokyo is the hardest. “One of the members of the professional organization said so. There are 150 beds for seriously ill people in Tokyo, and the use rate is less than 40%, but Dr. Akifumi Imamura from Komagome Metropolitan Hospital in Tokyo told a meeting of an expert organization on the 24th: “There is a manpower problem to deal with even if there is a bed. I can’t take it until it’s full. “

When I consulted with the head of the Metropolitan Office of Health and Welfare, he explained that it would be possible to solve it if the number of seriously ill people increased little by little, but it would be difficult to do it all at once. If the number of seriously ill people increases to 20 or 30 per day, it can become unacceptable. Currently, people with mild illnesses are treated in hotels or at home, hospitalization is moderate or greater, and the burden of seeing a patient is increasing.

“It is becoming difficult to accept other diseases like stroke and heart attack to accept corona patients,” Nikkei president Nakagawa said at a press conference on the 25th.

◆ “I don’t have time to adjust GoTo”

There is a big difference in temperature between doctors and other specialists and the government. After the expert organization’s meeting on the 24th, one of the members said: “I cannot convey a very strong feeling of crisis to various people in the government. It feels sad.” It is said that there is no prospect of maintaining the medical system in two to three weeks.

“If you do this accurately, it is not a situation where the spread of the infection stops. The virus spreads throughout the region.” “I don’t have time for the government and the governor to make adjustments with Go To Travel. We need to restrict the movement, and we have to severely shorten the business hours of restaurants,” he said.