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44% of advanced treatment hospitals face difficulty due to virus

44% of advanced treatment hospitals face difficulty due to virus Dec. 31, 2020 06:22 am JST Jan. 13 | 02:56 pm JST TOKYO The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. © KYODO ©2021 GPlusMedia Inc. Dec. 31, 2020 07:55 am JST The problem is not about the overall shortage of healthcare resources, but its distribution is unbalanced and unfair. Burdens are being piled up only on certain hospitals while in other hospitals, waiting rooms and corridors are empty. Although about 20 % of all hospitals in Japan have taken care of corona patients, the remaining and vast majority (mostly smaller sized and private clinics) have still refused to take them.

COVID-19 surge disrupting care at 44% of Japan s major hospitals

Among the responses, Hokkaido University Hospital said that when it sent nurses to care for COVID-19 patients, it needed to have other departments scale down their services. The University of Yamanashi Hospital said it had postponed scheduled surgeries. Asked whether they have enough staff to treat novel coronavirus patients with severe symptoms, 53% said they faced a shortage of nurses while 44% said they lacked doctors. Some 58% of the respondents said they did not intend to increase the number of beds made available for coronavirus patients, compared with 33% that said they were scheduled to or were considering increasing beds. “Fatigue and stress on health care workers have started to exceed their limit,” Tokyo Medical and Dental University’s Medical Hospital wrote in its response. Another hospital said, “There are nurses who intend to quit because of anxiety and stress.”

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