Hospital for serious COVID-19 patients opens in Osaka to fill need : The Asahi Shimbun
Health care workers from the Self-Defense Forces arrive at a temporary hospital for serious COVID-19 cases in Osaka’s Sumiyoshi Ward on Dec. 15. (Pool) OSAKA--An emergency hospital set up for COVID-19 patients in serious condition opened here on Dec. 15 with a medical staff cobbled together from the Self-Defense Forces and other sources. The hospital began operating with five of the planned 30 beds as the prefecture’s hospitals to treat seriously ill coronavirus patients are nearing capacity. As of the beginning of this month, Osaka prefectural officials could secure only about 50 nurses ...