I picked her up, loaded her into the car and rushed her to an ER, 10 minutes away saving precious time. Lets see them refuse us at the emergency room doors! I actually had to do this 28 years ago in the United States when I woke up in the middle of the night as my girlfriend at the time was burning up in a pool of sweat, and unresponsive. I told my wife that it's a waste of time to call 119 for an ambulance here in Japan as we would bleed to death before we eventually get to a hospital and instead get her or myself into the car and drive the 10 minutes to the ER. Problem is the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Health and Welfare Ministry are unwilling to put the people over political donations and cozy retirement jobs from the medical institutions. This problem of not ambulances but citizens in need of immediate medical attention being REJECTED by public and private medical institutions in Japan is nothing new and could EASILY be remedied. A population of 1.4 million people.ĭont get me started on dental clinics! 17 There are literally well over 100 hospitals and probably double that for clinics in Okinawa alone. Within a 10 minute drive from my house, I can get to at least 30 different clinics, smaller hospitals, and at least 5 large, and 2 sogo hospitals and the prefectural University Hospital, and 2 emergency centers. There quite literally is an "overabundance" of small clinics and hospitals here.
The system is set up as kind of like a "triage" system where the smaller local clinics and hospitals funnel the more serious patients to the larger one's. Even when does manage to get into one, it literally can take an entire day to be seen. One needs to have been referred to them from a local clinic or another hospital. Also many of the large "sogo" hospitals will not take patients off the streets. Each prefecture only has a certain number of hospitals that are specifically designated as "emergency" hospitals. I would call it "designated" health care.
It' not really "rationed" health care, it's just an over abundance of small hospitals and specialized hospitals that are not equipped to deal with medical emergencies. Rationed health care has many good things about it, but overabundance is not one. Many times things get literally lost in translation. Quite so, but if you stick around JT long enough you really get good at reading between the lines and understanding what they mean in the first place. The title and first paragraph make it seem like they are lost and don't have GPS with navigation. Fortunately we took her, and didnt need an ambulance!īoth of us had to have COVID tests before we were allowed into see the doctor, and that took literally 5 hours to get results. And there was nothing I nor anyone could do about it. It took nearly 10 hours to get admitted, all along having serious abdominal pain. My wife went into the hospital yesterday for a reoccuring problem she has had over the past few years and may need surgery. Hospitals down here are at 100% or near, give and take a couple of beds, for COVID patients, and until the government reclassifies COVID, there will continue to be stories like this, and worse, in the news.īecause of Japanese health laws regarding communicable illness, only specified hospitals are capable of handling quarantine patients. Only specific hospitals are charged with taking in COVID patients and when the ambulance picks up a patient with respiratory problems, it is automatically assumed they are more than likely positive for COVID, hence the limited options of where to take the patient. Even before Covid strike, hospital in Japan rejects people that in need emergency.
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