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Recently, an increasing number of evacuees continue to live in their own homes. Some find it difficult to leave their homes and some still feel more comfortable in their homes even though they are on the edge. Indeed, wherever they spend their time, whether in a shelter or at home, their lives may be constrained […]

It is snowing steadily again today in Suzu City. People in the shelter started to tell us their requests for improving the environment. First thing in the morning, there was a person who requested a cardboard bed. Of course HuMA members alone could have prepared the beds, but we assembled them together with local people […]

HuMA continues its support activities at the rescue center in Suzu City and at the maternity hospital in Nanao City. Here is a report from the maternity hospital. The other day, a healthy baby was born safely, and the moment was truly moving. During the delivery, we were touched by the support and encouragement from […]

HuMA continues its medical support activities at the evacuation center in Suzu City. Today, the number of patients seen was low, probably due to the snow and sometimes hail. Japan Disaster Rehabilitation Assistance Team (JRAT) visited us and conducted health exercises for the elderly under the guidance of an exercise instructor. Most people participated and […]

Today at the relief station that HuMA is in charge of, doctors went around talking to people, which led to the examination of those who were not feeling well. However, many of the visitors to the relief center said that they were told by their neighbors to go there, and the situation emerged that those […]

HuMA has divided its team into two teams and is conducting support activities at a relief center in Suzu City and also at a maternity hospital in Nanao City. Today, we would like to report on our activities from the maternity hospital. Today, we had discharges for a postpartum woman and a newborn. Typically, patients […]

We were informed that a person who had tested positive for corona the day before at the shelter was not in good condition, and we visited him immediately. He was unable to eat, and we judged that he had pneumonia, so we transported him to Suzu General Hospital. We also examined and transported other patients […]

At the request of another organization, we accompanied a patient home in one of the districts. The elderly parents were having difficulty evacuating because their daughter, who suffers from schizophrenia, was unable to leave her cat. We went to the home, which was severely damaged. The road was collapsed and impassable, so we had to […]

We had many emergency cases. We saw a dehydrated patient who had an IV infusion yesterday. There was also a drop in blood oxygen level, so we transported him by ambulance. We were relieved to be able to connect him to the hospital because he had a pneumothorax complication. An evacuee who is being treated […]

There may not be many young people overall in the shelter that HuMA is in charge of. Eighty people from other shelters will be moved here in the next few days on an emergency basis. It was necessary to move things to make room for them, but because it was a tough job, the relief […]