看護師不足　　Nurse Shortage in Japan

「フィリピン、日本の看護師を目指す人の面接会、応募は過去最少に」

これはNHKが7月23日の朝の全国ニュースで報じたニュースのタイトルで、その内容は添付写真の通りです。

その原因は円安と言葉の壁とのことですが、もっと根深い背景があり、何十年も前から分かっていたことです。

円安は政府と経済界のおごりと怠慢であることは過去30年の日本経済停滞で明らかで、これが根深い背景の一つです。

言葉の壁は日本語がガラパゴス言語であるにもかかわらず、アジア諸国を見下し、国際語である英語が堪能な海外からの看護師に日本語習得を強制していることが、もう一つの根深い背景で、実に不合理です。

言葉の問題は日本の医療看護業界が先ず、英語も使用可能な国際基準体制になることです。

私はマニラのある大病院とその付属看護学校を20年ほど前に訪問し、40年来の友人の元理事長に現地の豊富な看護人材を紹介され、日本へのその看護人材派遣を話し合ったことがあります（下記サイト参照）が、上述の言葉の障壁で頓挫しました。

https://www.office-ktk.jp/%E5%9B%BD%E9%9A%9B%E3%83%93%E3%82%B8%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B9%E4%BC%81%E7%94%BB%E6%94%AF%E6%8F%B4/%E4%BA%8B%E4%BE%8B%EF%BC%91-%E4%BB%8B%E8%AD%B7%E4%BA%BA%E6%9D%90%E6%8B%9B%E3%81%B8%E3%81%84/　

今週は医療や健康に関する内容で、明日は高齢者の医療費の窓口負担について投稿します。

“Nurse Applicants to Japan Interviewed in the Philippines, but Applications Hit Record Low.”

This was the title of a news report on NHK's national news on the morning of July 23, and its content is shown in the attached photo.

The reasons for this are said to be the weak yen and the language barrier, but there is a more deep-rooted background, which we have known for decades.

It is clear from the stagnation of the Japanese economy over the past 30 years that the cause of the weak yen is the arrogance and negligence of the Government and the business community, and this is one deep-rooted background.

Another deep-rooted background is the truly irrational language barrier, where the Government looks down on Asian countries and forces foreign nurses who are fluent in English, an international language, to learn Japanese, even though Japanese is a Galapagos language.

To solve the language problem, the Japanese medical nursing industry must first become an international standard one where English can also be used.

I visited a large hospital and its nursing school in Manila about 20 years ago. The former director of the hospital, a friend of mine for 40 years, introduced me to the abundance of local nursing staffs and we discussed the possibility of sending nursing personnel to Japan (see the following website), but the aforementioned language barrier prevented this.

https://www.office-ktk.jp/int-l-biz-planning-support/case-1-nurse-staffing/

This week I will post about medical and health-related content, and tomorrow I will post about the cost of medical care for the elderly over the counter.