都医師会長「患者守れない状態に」　医療の負担増に危機感―新型コロナ

　東京都医師会の尾崎治夫会長は８日、都内で記者会見し、新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大に伴う入院患者の増加を受け、「コロナ患者も一般患者も両方守れない状態に近づいている」と述べ、強い危機感を示した。
　都内のコロナ入院患者は同日時点で１８５０人に上った。尾崎会長は、中高年層の感染者が増加しているとし、「入院患者も高齢者が増え、入院期間が延びている。治療にかなりの負担がかかっている」と訴えた。
　政府の観光支援事業「Ｇｏ　Ｔｏ　トラベル」をめぐり、東京発着の旅行の自粛を高齢者らに呼び掛けていることに関しては、「全ての年代で人の移動を止めることが効果的だと思っているので、私としては残念だ」と述べた。（2020/12/08-21:25）

Haruo Ozaki, head of the Tokyo Medical Association, has expressed a strong sense of urgency over the possibility of hospitals in the Japanese capital becoming incapable of saving patients, given the recent increase of hospitalized people amid the pandemic.
   "We're approaching a situation where we cannot protect coronavirus patients as well as general patients," Ozaki told a press conference on Tuesday.
   As of the same day, the number of hospitalized coronavirus patients in Tokyo came to 1,850.
   With more and more middle-aged and elderly people contracting COVID-19, those who get hospitalized are increasing and the periods of their hospitalization are getting longer, according to Ozaki. "A substantial burden has been placed on medical treatment systems," he said.
   Ozaki expressed his regret over the request the Japanese government made for elderly people to refrain from traveling to and from Tokyo under its Go To Travel tourism promotion program, saying, "The effective way (to stop the spread of infections), to my opinion, is to stop the movement of people of all ages."