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Injured man refused by hospital over COVID test left at motorbike
accident scene in Japan

August 13, 2022 (Mainichi Japan)

Japanese version

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This file photo shows an ambulance on a road. (Mainichi/Kazuhisa
Soneda)

KOBE -- An ambulance crew in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, returned an
injured man to the scene of a traffic accident and left him there
after a hospital refused to accept him because he had tested positive
for the coronavirus, the city's fire department told the Mainichi
Shimbun on Aug. 12.

The 21-year-old student from the nearby city of Kobe was taken by a
different ambulance to another hospital about two hours later, and
was diagnosed with a broken left leg. An Amagasaki municipal fire
department representative said, "Ambulance dispatches are on the rise
because of COVID-19, and we did everything we could."

According to the fire department, the student fell off his motorbike
on National Route No. 2 in Amagasaki after colliding with a car at
around 11:50 p.m. on Aug. 5. A friend riding a separate motorbike
called an ambulance.

The student arrived at the first hospital in a fire station ambulance
about 30 minutes later. As the student had a fever, he took an
antigen test inside the ambulance, which came back positive, and the
hospital refused to accept him. The ambulance crew determined that
his injuries did not require emergency care. They apparently returned
to the scene of the accident and dropped him off there, with the
student's consent.

However, the student felt pain in his neck and lower back, and his
father called another ambulance from the accident scene at around 2
a.m. on Aug. 6. Another fire department ambulance took him to a
hospital in the city of Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, where doctors
found he had a leg fracture.

Ambulance transport cases have been surging in Amagasaki amid the
seventh coronavirus wave. Between July 1 and Aug. 11, there were
4,538 ambulance dispatches, up 939 from the same period of the
previous year.

(Japanese original by Ai Murata, Kobe Bureau)

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