To address a shortage in medical care for mothers and babies in Tokyo, the Jikei University School of Medicine plans to build a new hospital complex by fiscal 2017 that will specialize in perinatal medicine and pediatrics.
Among the 25 perinatal medical centers that take in emergency patients in Tokyo, only 12 hospitals accept both pregnant women and newborn babies. Jikei Hospital currently accepts newborns transported from other hospitals for emergency care, but not pregnant women.
As the shortage in such hospitals in Tokyo grows, the existing Women's and Children's Medical Center at Jikei will move into the new building, while a new pediatric and maternal-fetal intensive care unit will be established.