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[To those involved in the facility] When cases of suspected infectious diseases (including COVID-19 infection) or food poisoning occur at facilities for the elderly or childcare facilities
When case of suspected infectious disease or food poisoning occurs in elderly facility, childcare facility, I would like correspondence about the following items.
Last updated on January 6, 2025.
1 Grasp the occurrence status (in patients and facilities)
First of all, it is necessary to quickly grasp the following items.
- Check when and where symptoms (vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, etc.) started.
- Immediately confirm the presence or absence of consultation, test results, treatment, and treatment.
- Check the person's underlying disease and medical history.
- Check if there are any other people who are complaining of similar situations (users, staff, etc.), and if so, grasp the location and number of people.
(Confirm that the person who had the same meal or the person in the same room has no symptoms, etc.) - Check the symptoms with family members who come to the meeting.
- Check the manual when an infectious disease occurs again.
If you suspect infectious gastroenteritis, please also refer to the following materials.
If infectious gastroenteritis occurs (childcare facilities) (PDF: 520KB)
If you have a COVID-19 infection patient at an elderly facility, please also check the following page.
2. Contact relevant organizations
If you can understand the situation, please contact the relevant organizations.
2-1 Reports from facilities for the elderly
<Estimated Reporting to Health and Welfare Center>
- The same infectious disease, food poisoning, or suspected fatalities or serious cases occur within one week.
- When more than 10 people suspected to be the same infectious disease, food poisoning, or when more than half of all users occur.
- ①Even if it does not fall under 2 and 2, outbreaks of infectious diseases that exceed normal outbreak trends are suspected, especially when the facility manager deems it necessary to report.
<Method of contact>
- Please report to Hodogaya Ward Health and Welfare Center by e-mail using the Report on the Number of New Cases (Excel: 24KB). (Fax is also acceptable)
- Please contact us by telephone (Health and Welfare Division Health Promotion Section: 045-334-6346) after reporting (email or fax).
※Based on the report, we will cooperate with the Health Sanitation Division as necessary. - In the case of a report on COVID-19, please also submit a report on infection status at <COVID-19 infection> nursing care facilities and facilities for the elderly.
<Submission destination> Please submit to Hodogaya Ward Health and Welfare Division by either way.
- FAX: 045-333-6309
- Email: [email protected]
[In the case of a report of coronavirus infection, please also send it to [email protected]. ]
2-2 Reports from childcare facilities
<Estimated Reporting to Health and Welfare Center>
- The same infectious disease, food poisoning, or suspected fatalities or serious cases occur within one week.
- When more than 20% of all users have occurred in the same infectious disease, food poisoning, or suspected person due to them.
- ①Even if it does not fall under 2 and 2, outbreaks of infectious diseases that exceed normal outbreak trends are suspected, especially when the facility manager deems it necessary to report.
- "Infectious diseases (classes 1 to 3) and Measles wind shin" as stipulated in the Infectious Diseases Act, and if there is a possibility of spread in group life for Class 4 and Class 5.
<Method of contact>
- Please use the “Infectious Disease Outbreak Report” (Excel: 19KB) and report it to Hodogaya Ward Children and Families Support Division by e-mail. (Fax is also acceptable)
- If you report by fax, please contact us by telephone (Children and Families Support Division: 045-334-6397).
※Based on the report, we will work with Health and Welfare Division, Health Sanitation Division and Children and Families Support Division as necessary.
<Submission destination> Please submit to Hodogaya Ward Children and Families Support Division by one of the following methods.
- Email: [email protected]
- FAX: 045-333-6393
3 Submission of documents to the ward office
Elderly facilities
Report on the number of new cases (Excel: 24KB)
COVID-19 infection infection status Report on nursing care facilities and facilities for the elderly
Childcare facilities
Infectious Disease Outbreak Report (Excel: 19KB)
4 Response to each suspected infectious disease
4-1 Response to suspected infectious gastroenteritis
Treatment and disinfection of vomit
Image of how to treat and disinfect vomit
Treatment and disinfection method of vomit (PDF: 808KB)
Video of vomit processing learned in practice (click the image to link to the video page)
4-2 Control of infection from normal times
Referring to the following media and materials, it is a facility, so if you prepare an infectious disease manual and conduct infectious disease control training at the facility, you can quickly respond to outbreaks. The basics of infection control are standard pre-coated. First of all, let's review whether it's well done.
Standard Prevention Measures (Standard Precotion)
Standard precautionary measures (PDF: 1,588KB)
It is easy to introduce and explain the following contents. Please use it for training at the facility.
<Content>
1 Standard Prevention Measures
2 Hand hygiene timing
3 Put on and take off hand hygiene gloves
About correct hand washing procedure (Yokohama-shi)
About the correct hand washing procedure
Vietnamese version (PDF: 271KB)
5 Collection of Related Materials
5-1 Infections in general
Let's be careful about infectious diseases (Health and Social Welfare Bureau Institute of Health)
It is infectious disease reporting page for citizens.
Yokohama Infectious Disease Information Center
We can confirm infectious disease outbreak situation in Yokohama-shi.
5-2 Infectious gastroenteritis related
About infectious gastroenteritis (norovirus) (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) (outside site)
Food poisoning (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) (outside site)
Points for food poisoning prevention (Food Safety Commission) (outside site)
HACCP System and Guidebook-related (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) (outside site)
About hygiene management in line with HACCP (Yokohama City Public Health Center)
5-3 COVID-19 infection-related
Information on COVID-19 infections
COVID-19 infections (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) (outside site)
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Hodogaya Ward Health and Welfare Center Health and Welfare Division Health Promotion Section
Phone: 045-334-6344
Phone: 045-334-6344
Fax: 045-333-6309
E-Mail address [email protected]
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