Tokyo plans to subsidize epidurals, however are hospitals prepared?

Plans are underway for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to start out providing, from April, a subsidy for epidural births, which have historically been the exception somewhat than the norm in Japan.

While many ladies welcome the information, some specialists level to the restricted capability of establishments prepared to supply epidurals and the potential dangers of inexperienced medical doctors dashing to supply them.

The subsidy — which Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike first proposed throughout her reelection bid final 12 months — will doubtless cowl girls who dwell in Tokyo and provides delivery at establishments within the capital, the place anesthesiologists or medical doctors versed in anesthesia are current.