World’s 1st Living Lung Transplant to COVID Patient Conducted in Japan
Kyoto University Hospital said Thursday it has performed the world’s first living donor lung transplant into a patient with lung damage from the novel coronavirus.
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Fourteen year old student arrested for attempting to kill twenty-five year old man at Hyogo facility for the disabled
On April 7, the Arima Police Station of the Hyogo Prefectural Police arrested a 14-year-old male student on suspicion of attempted murder for attempting to kill a 25-year-old man at a facility for the intellectually disabled in Kobe City’s Kita Ward. The man is in a critical condition and unconscious.
Hyogo Prefecture city produces CD explaining how to use JR platform fences to visually impaired people
The City of Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, has produced a CD teaching material to help the visually impaired learn about the platform fences installed at JR Akashi Station and other stations. The CD explains the procedure of walking through the station with a visually impaired person and getting on a train. It also includes an interview with a JR West employee and his impressions of the platform fence.
Japan’s steep surge in coronavirus deaths “caused largely by cluster infections” at nursing homes where “outbreaks jumped fivefold”
The rise in the number of deaths from the coronavirus is largely due to cluster infections at nursing homes and other similar facilities, the Asahi Shimbun reported on April 5.
Autistic Man and Father to be Olympic Torchbearer
Shiita Kokubo, a 20-year-old autistic living in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, will run as a Tokyo Olympic torchbearer with his father to show their appreciation for people who have supported them.
Alleged sexual assaults reported at Oita care facilities for people with disabilities in fiscal year 2019
Oita Prefecture reported that in fiscal year 2019 ‘sexual acts’ such as kissing took place at care facilities in the prefecture.
734 people with disabilities in Japan abused in fiscal year 2019, at least two deaths
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, reported that a total of 734 people with disabilities were abused by staff at facilities for the disabled during fiscal year 2019, with two deaths as a direct result of abuse.
Japanese disability activist Hirotada Ototake seeks ‘disability gap index’
Ototake said, “I wonder if some institution will issue the gap index between” healthy people “and” disabled people “.” It should give rise to momentum. “
Landmarks in Japan illuminated blue for World Autism Awareness Day
Tokyo Tower and other landmark buildings across Japan were illuminated blue on Friday to mark a U.N.-designated day aimed at deepening the understanding of autism.
Japanese Govt to Get Involved in Prenatal Tests
The report on a new type of prenatal tests designed to detect chromosomal abnormalities of unborn children from their DNA in expectant mothers’ blood calls for the ministry, academic societies and other parties concerned to establish a new steering committee.
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