As the hospital became unable to provide dialysis and other medical care, patients were temporarily transferred to a nearby hospital.
With electricity and water supplies remaining unavailable as of Tuesday, Tanushimaru Central Hospital is operating medical equipment using an emergency power system. On Tuesday, all hospital staff and volunteers worked to remove the floodwater and mud.
The Japanese government on Friday adopted a roadmap for launching a system to allow hospitals and pharmacies across the country to share electronic medical records by 2030. Japan has been slow to digitalize its medical sector, which was exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In January this year, a woman who lives in Ota Ward, Tokyo, who has cerebral palsy, a speech impediment palsy and uses home visiting care contracted a new variant of the coronavirus and requested to be admitted to a metropolitan hospital, but was refused.
The weekly number of cases in Japan in which ambulance crews could not soon find hospitals to transport emergency patients has hit a record high for the fourth consecutive week, government data showed Tuesday. The result came as COVID-19 infections are continuing to spread in the country, putting a burden on the medical care system.
The Japanese government adopted at a cabinet meeting on Friday 7th October bills partly aimed at obliging large hospitals in the country to keep providing medical services even if patients surge in times of epidemics.
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