Health care workers from the Self-Defense Forces arrive at a temporary hospital for serious COVID-19 cases in Osaka’s Sumiyoshi Ward on Dec. 15. (Pool)
OSAKA An emergency hospital set up for COVID-19 patients in serious condition opened here on Dec. 15 with a medical staff cobbled together from the Self-Defense Forces and other sources.
The hospital began operating with five of the planned 30 beds as the prefecture’s hospitals to treat seriously ill coronavirus patients are nearing capacity.
As of the beginning of this month, Osaka prefectural officials could secure only about 50 nurses of a total of about 130 needed to staff the temporary facility.
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Self-Defense Force nurses arrive at a new facility set up at Osaka General Medical Center for seriously ill COVID-19 patients on Tuesday. | POOL / VIA KYODO
Kyodo Dec 15, 2020
Osaka – A facility dedicated to coronavirus patients with serious symptoms opened Tuesday in Osaka, with the Self-Defense Forces as well as other regions of Japan sending nurses to make up for a staff shortage amid a recent spike in infections there.
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GSDF 1st Lt. Sayaka Hoshino, one of the nurses to be sent to Osaka Prefecture, meets with Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tokyo on Friday. | KYODO
Jiji Dec 12, 2020
The Defense Ministry said Friday that it will dispatch seven nurses from the Ground Self-Defense Force’s Middle Army to Osaka Prefecture, which is on the brink of a medical system collapse due to rising coronavirus cases.