Press Release (March 22, 2023)
Policy Division, Welfare Bureau
The Kobe Medical Personnel Support Fund, which is designed to express appreciation and solidarity with medical personnel who are struggling on the front lines of treatment and prevention of patients with new-type coronavirus infection and to collect donations to support their activities, is no longer accepting donations from citizens and companies. The Kobe Medical Supporters Support Fund, which is widely accepting donations from citizens and companies to support the activities of medical professionals, will stop accepting donations on March 31, 2023 (Friday), as new coronavirus infection will be classified as a “Class 5 Infectious Disease” starting in May.
The Kobe Medical Supporters Fund has so far received a total of approximately 875 million yen (as of March 16, 2023) in donations from citizens and companies, which has been used to support medical professionals working on the front lines of coronas.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of you for your donations, which have enabled us to provide tremendous support and assistance to so many medical professionals.
The balance of the donations will be distributed to medical professionals after the Fund’s Allocation Committee deliberates on the criteria and method of distribution following the close of the donation receipt.
1. Donation Receipt Status (as of March 16 )
Donations received |
874,542,153 yen (4,189 donations) |
Total amount already allocated (1st to 4th round) |
752,355,777 yen |
Donation balance |
122,186,376 yen |
2. Allocations to medical institutions to date
Target |
Number of medical institutions |
Amount allocated | |
First round (R2.3.1-5.7) |
Hospitalization Acceptance PCR specimen collection |
19 hospitals 36 hospitals through Kobe City Medical Association 34 hospitals through Kobe City Private Hospital Association |
315,090 thousand yen |
Secondary (R2.5.8-9.30) |
Acceptance of hospitalization |
13 hospitals |
116,127 thousand yen |
Special allocation (R2.10.1-R3.2.28) |
Directly employed |
30 Hospitals (10,000 yen QUO cards distributed to 15,767 employees) |
157,670 thousand yen |
Special allocation Additional facilities (R3.4.1-5.31) |
Directly employed |
10 visiting nursing stations (10,000 yen QUO cards distributed to 241 employees) |
2,410 thousand yen |
Fourth round (R3.3.1 – 11.1) (June to November for home-visit stations) |
Inpatient admissions Outpatient admissions House call/Home visit Home nursing |
45 hospitals 15 home-visit nursing stations (700 yen per “total number of health care workers” who directly attended to corona patients was distributed in the form of QUO cards) |
161,059 thousand yen |
Figures in parentheses indicate the period covered by the program. |
Total amount distributed |
752,356 thousand yen |