地震発生時は自宅にいたが、「建物に挟まれるのは嫌だ。でも今行かなくてどうする」と言い聞かせて病院へ向かった。今回の救護活動で感じたことや、今後に活かすことを私見として記述した。
・福島県立福島高等学校の避難所では利用者の状況(妊婦・小さい子供、介護の必要な高齢者、その他)によって利用施設が分類されており、利用者の心情に配慮されている点が素晴らしかった。
・妊婦健診で母子手帳は役に立つ！妊婦さんは常に母子手帳を携帯しよう。
・赤十字病院での災害時を想定した訓練や教育が役に立つ。平時から最新機器がなくても対処できる訓練が、災害時に活きた。
・災害発生初期に、原発事故も発生したために他県の班は県外に移動し、福島県支部と山形県支部が孤軍奮闘だった。
・高齢者施設の利用者の方々を受け入れ、伊達ふれあいセンターに搬送する対応をした際には、人手と救護備品が十分になく被災者に申し訳ない気持ちでいっぱいだった。
・できて当たり前のことができなかった理由の一つが放射能汚染であり、どこにもぶつけることのできない辛さを感じた。
I was at home when the earthquake started. I said to myself "I hate to be sandwiched between the buildings, but I have to go now!", and headed to the hospital. Here I will summarize what I felt together with the lessons that I learned from the relief activities as my personal opinions.
The evacuation center at Fukushima High School was well managed, considering the evacuees' mind, considering that the facilities were divided based on the types of evacuees, i.e. pregnant women and infants, elderly people who needed nursing, and others.
The "Maternal and Child Health Handbook" was so helpful for prenatal checkup. Pregnant women should carry it with them all the time.
The training and education for the disaster relief conducted at the Red Cross Hospital helped me a lot in the actual situation. Especially the examination training without advanced equipment was useful in the disaster situation.
In the early stages, all the relief teams from other prefectures, except Fukushima and Yamagata, had left to go out of Fukushima because of the nuclear power plant accident. Then it was really a lonely battle for us.
I took care of the elderly evacuees from the nursing facility and transferred them to Date Fureai Center. Because of the shortage of the human resources and the first-aid materials there, we couldn't take care of them as much as we wished. I felt really sorry for them.
One of the reasons we couldn't do what we could have done was the radioactive contamination. I felt "bitterness" but had no place or no one to vent on.