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FEBRUARY 5, 2022
THE JAPAN NEWS-YOMIURI
TOKYO - The Tokyo metropolitan government has requested hospitals to increase their number of emergency beds to accept patients at night and on weekends and holidays, as emergency medical care in the capital is in a critical situation due to the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases.
The request was made to medical institutions in Tokyo on Tuesday as an emergency measure, effective through March 31.
Medical institutions in Tokyo had been asked to do something different in early January: to increase the number of beds for COVID-19 patients as much as possible. But the request put many hospitals in the difficult situation of being unable to provide sufficient beds for non-COVID patients.
... At some hospitals, the situation was so serious that they had no choice but to restrict the acceptance of emergency patients.
Rejection of emergency patients has rapidly become common, and the number of serious incidents such as patients being refused by five or more institutions exceeded a daily average of 250 in the week to Tuesday. The labor shortage is becoming more and more serious as medical staff get infected or become close contacts one after another.
THE JAPAN NEWS-YOMIURI
TOKYO - The Tokyo metropolitan government has requested hospitals to increase their number of emergency beds to accept patients at night and on weekends and holidays, as emergency medical care in the capital is in a critical situation due to the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases.
The request was made to medical institutions in Tokyo on Tuesday as an emergency measure, effective through March 31.
Medical institutions in Tokyo had been asked to do something different in early January: to increase the number of beds for COVID-19 patients as much as possible. But the request put many hospitals in the difficult situation of being unable to provide sufficient beds for non-COVID patients.
... At some hospitals, the situation was so serious that they had no choice but to restrict the acceptance of emergency patients.
Rejection of emergency patients has rapidly become common, and the number of serious incidents such as patients being refused by five or more institutions exceeded a daily average of 250 in the week to Tuesday. The labor shortage is becoming more and more serious as medical staff get infected or become close contacts one after another.
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