福島の救護活動＿長岡赤十字病院　救護活動記録

This content is about an excerpt of a report on relief activities conducted by the Nagaoka Red Cross Hospital during the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The excerpt is about essays contributed by the hospital staff members who provided mobile clinic services at secondary evacuation centers in Aizuwakamatsu Area, Fukushima Prefecture.
The mobile clinic services were provided by visiting the secondary evacuation centers which were hotels and treating patients. Many of the evacuees at the secondary evacuation centers were from Hama Dori, an area along the Pacific coast. They had to evacuate their homes without bringing their belongings and travel from an evacuation center to another center and finally reached the Aizuwakamatsu Area where the climate is different from their area. Needless to say, it is important to provide the evacuees with healthcare. However, the staff members felt that it was more necessary to provide psychological care to the evacuees by listening carefully to them.