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2 days before the end of the Olympics - Tokyo's Corona 5th wave intensifies
The Tokyo Olympics are being held in Tokyo, Japan, with the
participation of a large number of foreigners, attracting international
attention.
Hospitals in and around Tokyo are overcrowded and have
limited access to basic services due to viral infections.
At a hospital meeting three days ago on August 3, Kotaro Yokota,
director of Chiba University Hospitals, the capital of Chiba prefecture, said there
was a need to limit the overall scope of medical treatment. A state of
emergency was declared in Tokyo's Chiba prefecture yesterday.
The hospital hopes to double the number of beds in two weeks
to treat COVID-19 patients with moderate to severe symptoms.
It is said that almost all the patients who come to the
hospital at present are corona patients.
"If we take 10 COVID-19 patients, we will not see
another patient," said a nurse.
A bunch of infections have erupted in Tokyo schools and
kindergarten classes.
The hospital's respiratory doctor, Cicciro Sakao, said:
"There was an incident in the city where an ambulance was stuck for two
hours without a hospital to take a patient.
“I think this crisis will last until September,” he said.
On July 26, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government issued a
notice to health care organizations to postpone scheduled operations and to
limit normal practices in response to the rise of the new corona virus.
The University of Tokyo Hospital in the Bankio Ward, which
admits patients with moderate to severe COVID-19, has reserved ICU beds to
provide additional beds for the treatment of severely symptomatic COVID-19
patients.
The hospital has closed some units since last year to make
room for more COVID-19 patients.
"If the number of new cases continues to rise and
health workers become infected with the virus or come in close contact with a
patient, we may have to further reduce the number of operations and enroll
fewer patients," Seto said.
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