50 Healthcare Workers Visit Kumamoto Elderly at Home to Avert Post-Quake Deaths
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Updated · NHK WORLD · Aug 7
50 Healthcare Workers Visit Kumamoto Elderly at Home to Avert Post-Quake Deaths
3 articles · Updated · NHK WORLD · Aug 7
Summary
Around 50 healthcare workers fanned out across Yatsushiro on Friday, visiting elderly residents sheltering at home after the July 28 Kumamoto earthquake.
The teams — including public health nurses dispatched from across Japan — checked whether residents could eat, had enough medicine and showed any blood-pressure abnormalities.
Leaflets on heatstroke prevention were handed out as workers urged frequent hydration, with continuing tremors and scorching heat raising risks for older people staying home.
Yatsushiro recorded upper 6 on Japan's 0-to-7 seismic scale, and city officials said the visits, running since Aug. 1, are aimed at preventing disaster-related deaths more than a week after the quake.