Damage to Hospitals and Function Status of Medical Careafter the Great East Japan Earthquake
Health Policy Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, as of May 25 ,2011
Damage caused by Great
East Japan Earthquake

Circumstances of medical care’s function

Restricted acceptance of No Acceptance of Restricted acceptance of No Acceptance ofoutpatients
outpatients
inpatients
inpatients
Number Totally
Partially
Right
As of As of Right As of As ofRight
As of As of Right As of As ofof
collapsdestroyed afterApril May after April May
after April 20 May after April May
hospital eddamage
20
17 damage 20
17damage
17 damage 20
17IwatePrefecture
MiyagiPrefecture
Fukushima
Prefecture

94

458

54

5373348

721154147

5123

40

1751162713538

117139

2108

66

20

1127

121252

22

1435

24

20

Total

380

11289

160

42

1945

21

17107

42

2184

40

31

Note:
1.The range of “totally collapsed” and “partially destroyed” is based on the judgment of the prefecture. “Partially destroyed” includes thecase that a part of facilities is unusable , or some facilities are damaged.
2. The medical institutions accepting no patients in Fukushima include those located in the Restricted Area and Emergency Evacuation
Preparedness Zone due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of TEPCO.
3. With regard to Disaster Base Hospitals, Kamaishi Prefectural Hospital (Iwate pref.) and Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital (Miyagi pref.)restricted acceptance of inpatients, and Minamisoma City General Hospital (Fukushima pref.) restricted acceptance of inpatient andoutpatient.
4. The status of some of hospital is yet to be confirmed.
Original data : Materials of Health Policy Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Source：Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare “Annual Health, Labour and Welfare Report 2011-2012”
Statistical Database on the Great East Japan Earthquake, Global Centre for Disaster Statistics, IRIDeS, Tohoku Univ.

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Regarding the medical facilities in the three affected prefectures in Tohoku, 300
hospitals out of 380 were damaged, and 11 hospitals were completely collapsed(as of May 25).

Point of this Figure

Detailsof thesource

Name of thesource

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) “Annual Health, Labour andWelfare Report 2011-2012,” Chapter 2, page 146, Table <August, 2012> (inJapanese)

Title and thenumber

Damage Status by the Great East Japan Earthquake (Medical Institutes and Social
Welfare Facilities)

URL
Detailsof theoriginaldata

http://www.mhlw.go.jp/wp/hakusyo/kousei/11/dl/02-00.pdf

Details of theoriginal data

Health Policy Bureau, MHLW “Damage Status by the Great East JapanEarthquake (Medical Institutions and Social welfare facilities)“ <as of September
15, 2011 for hospitals in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Pref.> (in Japanese)

Title(1) Damage of Hospitals and Clinics in the Affected Area

URL

http://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/shingi/2r9852000001yxlj-att/2r9852000001yy9a.pdf

Keywords
Data Number

hospital, medical care, function of medical treatment
01-151-0101 (Please specify this number when you make any inquiries about
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Statistical Database on the Great East Japan Earthquake, Global Centre for Disaster Statistics, IRIDeS, Tohoku Univ.