HIGASHIOSAKA, Osaka -- A man who was seriously injured in a traffic accident died after five hospitals refused to treat him, police said.
Masao Nishimura, 49, a truck driver from Daito, Osaka Prefecture, was seriously injured after a minibike he was riding collided head-on with a car driven by a 28-year-old male company employee from Osaka on a municipal road in Higashiosaka at around 10:20 p.m. on Wednesday.
An emergency crew arrived at the scene at around 10:33 p.m. and tried to take Nishimura to a hospital, but five emergency medical centers declined to accept him.
Nishimura was finally taken to the Senri Critical Care Medical Center in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, at about 11:35 p.m., but he died from excessive bleeding at around 1:40 a.m. the next day.
Police said Nishimura had initially told the emergency crew, "I am OK."
The Nakakawachi Medical Center of Acute Medicine in Higashiosaka, which was one of the hospitals that declined to accept the patient, defended its decision.
"We had three doctors on duty as we normally do on holidays, and two of them were specialists and the other was an intern," a hospital official said. "We received calls from the emergency crew to accept the man twice, but we had no choice but to decline because we were treating two other critically ill patients."
搬送１時間：５救命センターに断られ、男性死亡 東大阪
東大阪市で２日夜、交通事故で重いけがをした男性が、救命救急センター５カ所に受け入れを断られ、６カ所目の救命救急センターへ約１時間後に搬送されたが死亡した。
大阪府警河内署と同府大東市消防本部によると、２日午後１０時２０分ごろ、大東市灰塚のトラック運転手、西村正夫さん（４９）が東大阪市内の市道で、ミニバイクを運転中、対向してきた大阪市淀川区の男性会社員（２８）の軽乗用車と衝突。
救急隊が同１０時３３分に事故現場に到着。西村さんは胸を強く打って危険な状態だったが、５カ所の救命救急センターが受け入れを断った。６カ所目に同府吹田市の府済生会千里病院併設の千里救命救急センターが受け入れを了承。救急隊は午後１１時に現場を出発し、１１時３５分に西村さんを同センターに運び込んだ。
河内署の話では、西村さんは事故直後「大丈夫」と話していたというが、搬送後の３日午前１時４０分過ぎ、大動脈損傷による出血多量で死亡した。
断った施設の一つ、東大阪市の府立中河内救命救急センターは「通常の休日と同じ医師３人の当直体制で、専門医２人と研修医１人だった。救急隊から２度の受け入れ要請があったが、別の重症患者２人の治療のため、２度とも受け入れを断らざるを得なかった」と話している。３次救急を担う救命救急センターは、救急患者の「最後のとりで」と位置づけられている。【日野行介、田中博子】
January 4, 2008
Mainichi
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