The COVID-19; coronavirus disease 2019 has been infected at Kosei General Hospital affiliated to Rissho Kosei Kai (Kyorin Gakuen Educational Facility) in Wada, Suginami city, Tokyo, Japan. It seems to be a nosocomial infection.
On February 18, 2020, a hospitalized 80s male was found infected with COVID-19.
On February 19, a hospitalized 70s female was found infected with COVID-19. She is the wife of a man who was found to have a coronavirus infection the day before.
On February 29, a female nurse working in the hospital was found infected with COVID-19.
On March 1, a new male COVID-19 infection was identified. He was hospitalized in the same room as an inpatient previously found to have a COVID-19 infection.
There were shortcomings and deficiencies in the way it has responded to the outbreak. A weekly magazine criticizes that the management system of the hospital as a medical institution was poorly and inadequate. Read this article and judge for yourself.
The hospital must operate in accordance with guidance from local government and public health authorities across the globe and put in place many virus-mitigating actions which result in a reduction of potential transmission. The hospital must follow guidance from the WHO.
The hospital is a subject to the Hayashida Medical Trial. At the Hayashida Medical Trial, the medical record stated that the cause of death of the hospitalized patient was aspiration pneumonia. However, the doctor at the hospital testified the court of Tokyo District Court No. 610 on June 1, 2016 that aspiration pneumonia was misdiagnosed and nosocomial infection with multidrug resistance Pseudomonas aeruginosa; MDRP is the cause of death.
Labor problems and medical accidents occurred at the hospital. A pediatrician working at the hospital committed suicide due to overwork. A female patient in her 80s died of a medical accident. The patient was mistakenly given a high concentration of the drug and her gastrointestinal tract was necrotic.
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