大阪へ、自衛隊の看護師派遣準備　西村担当相、府知事打診を受け―新型コロナ

　西村康稔経済再生担当相は６日のＮＨＫ番組で、新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大が続く大阪府に対し、自衛隊の看護師派遣を検討する考えを明らかにした。「吉村（洋文大阪府）知事から看護師が足りないと呼び掛けがされている。要請を受けることを想定し、自衛隊の看護官を派遣することも視野に準備したい」と述べた。（2020/12/06-12:20）

Japanese economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura suggested Sunday that the government will consider sending nurses belonging to the Self-Defense Forces to the western prefecture of Osaka, where novel coronavirus infection cases are surging.
   Noting that Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura has cited a shortage of nurses in the prefecture, Nishimura, who is responsible for the state's responses to the epidemic, said in a television program, "We will make preparations for a possible dispatch of SDF nurses (to Osaka), assuming that we will accept a request" from the governor.
   In a TV program on Saturday, Yoshimura said that he had asked the SDF and the National Governors' Association to send nurses to Osaka, which is seeing an increase in the number of coronavirus patients in serious condition.