西村担当相、小児科支援で特例措置　医療機関向け交付金増額―新型コロナ

　西村康稔経済再生担当相は６日、新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大の影響で患者が減っている小児科を支援するため、８日にも決定する追加経済対策に診療報酬の特例措置を盛り込む方針を明らかにした。感染対策や医療体制確保に充てる「緊急包括支援交付金」の増額も言明した。東京都内で記者団に語った。
　西村氏は「大幅な減収になっている小児科への特例措置や（緊急）包括支援交付金の増額を経済対策で盛り込み、補正予算で対応したい」と述べた。（2020/12/06-11:42）

Japanese economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura has indicated a plan to introduce a special measure to financially support pediatric clinics, which have been suffering revenue falls due to a decrease of patients amid the coronavirus pandemic.
   The special measure concerning medical fees paid to pediatric services under medical insurance systems will be included in a planned additional stimulus package to be adopted by the government as early as Tuesday, Nishimura, who is responsible for the state's responses to the epidemic, told reporters on Sunday.
   Also under the upcoming stimulus package, which is planned to be funded by the government's third supplementary budget for fiscal 2020, the government expects to boost its emergency subsidies to comprehensively assist medical institutions and the implementation of measures to combat infectious diseases, according to Nishimura.
   Speaking in a television program earlier in the day, Nishimura said the government will accelerate its work to make necessary revisions to the special law on tackling the coronavirus epidemic, as such a policy was indicated by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in a press conference on Friday.