Hospital staff shortages impacting parents of sick children

Japan's shortage of health care workers is impacting families of hospitalized children, with a recent survey showing approximately 85 percent of affected parents are forced to regularly care full-time for their kids despite paying patient fees.

How is this important? Dentsu needs a fat contract for digitalization and studying about making Japan Inc. more humanitarian in its international business and some hotel owners need GoTo subsidies.

Nurse pay and ensuring workers have adequate leave policies? That is of much lower priority.

No sympathy from me. The people here CONSTANTLY vote in the same clowns and then they want to complain about their plight? Everyone saw how ineffective the LDP has been from everything from Tohoku recovery, the ballooning Olympic costs all the way to the Pandemic. And we hear now that Sapporo is bidding for the games.

Japanese people never learn from their mistakes. They keep voting in the same clowns and want to sing Woe is Me. No sympathy

Anybody close to a family with a sick child knows the huge burden it takes on everybody, and the worst thing is that this should not be the case, culture and customs have made people think it is normal or even desirable that a parent stays at the hospital 24/7 with their child to make sure proper care is being taken, and that minimal support for the parent is fine. Neither of those two things are true.

We have to consider taking appropriate steps 

For goodness sake, don't these clowns ever DO anything except constantly 'consider', 'urge' or encourage'?

Hey parents with sick kids, don't worry; we spent your tax money on unused Olympic uniforms.

Japanese people never learn from their mistakes. They keep voting in the same clowns and want to sing Woe is Me. No sympathy

True to a point, but you'd have to be pretty cold to hold a sick kid responsible for Adults and their 'can't be bovvered' attitude to voting.

Sorry parents of sick children, we need to spend more on bridges to nowhere, tetrapods, the military-industrial complex and Sapporo's Olympic bid. You know orinpikku, sugoi desho?

That’s a bit crying at luxury level. When I was quite sometimes hospitalized as a child, there were only fixed visiting times, a few minutes in late weekdays’ afternoon , but almost no one of the parents could come because work until six p.m. and they could only stand far away , smile and wave hands but denied entry; and then a longer , one or two hour visiting time on weekends’ afternoons for sitting , chatting and playing together with us children patients. No such nowadays quasi hotel standards with parents living with the sick children together or caring many hours or 24/7 near the little patients. So personally I survived that several times what you complain and really don’t know what you are discussing here. lol