Toyota Provides Medical Facility with Transport Vehicle for Seriously Ill COVID-19 Patients
2020年4月30日 - 2:23PM
JCN Newswire (英)
Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced that today it
provided Showa University Hospital a specially designed transport
vehicle for seriously ill COVID-19 patients. The Toyota Hiace-based
vehicle was developed and outfitted by Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.
based on a variety of requests from medical facilities. This is the
first time for Toyota to provide a transport vehicle for seriously
ill COVID-19 patients.
The specially designed, Hiace-based transport vehicle for seriously
ill COVID-19 patients was developed as an "airborne droplet
circulation control vehicle." It features an interior barrier that
creates a forward compartment, which houses the driver's seat and
front-passenger seat, and a rearward compartment, which houses the
rear passenger seat area. An exhaust fan continuously expels air
from the rearward compartment out of the vehicle, helping to
prevent the air in the rearward compartment from circulating to the
forward compartment.
With a desire to provide vehicles that can at least play a small
role in combatting COVID-19, Toyota, while listening to the needs
of those on the frontlines of the medical sector, has been
considering the best ways it can help. The transport vehicle for
seriously ill COVID-19 patients provided today joins 11 transport
vehicles for mildly infected patients already provided by the
Toyota Group to such entities as medical facilities and local
governments.
The Toyota Group has positioned this initiative for supporting the
around-the-clock efforts of the frontlines of the medical sector,
which are working hard to diagnose and treat patients for COVID-19,
as part of Toyota's Kokoro Hakobu Project(3). Going forward, in
response to requests from such entities as medical facilities and
local governments for the provision of transport vehicles for
COVID-19 patients, Toyota intends to continue considering measures
that will be helpful and to continue taking quick action.
(1) So that the vehicles provided can be of use to the hospitals
most in need, vehicle use is being coordinated by parties on the
medical frontlines based on vehicle-use status and other factors.
(Primary receivers of vehicles: Showa University Hospital, Nippon
Medical School Hospital, Center Hospital of the National Center for
Global Health and Medicine, The Jikei University Hospital, Tokyo
Shinagawa Hospital, and Nihon University Itabashi Hospital)
(2) Vehicle provided by Toyota sales companies in Chiba Prefecture
based on technological cooperation from Toyota Motor
Corporation
(3) The Kokoro Hakobu Project (with "Kokoro Hakobu" meaning "to
carry or deliver one's heart" in Japanese) has been the collective
name of nationwide initiatives by Toyota, Toyota sales outlets in
Japan, and their employees to provide continuous and long-term
support to disaster-affected areas in the wake of the Great East
Japan Earthquake. The name has the connotation of "carrying you in
our hearts." Based on Toyota's desire to contribute in some way to
people who have contracted and are suffering from COVID-19, as well
as to the medical professionals, Japan's central government, and
local governments in Japan fighting the disease night and day,
Toyota has decided to apply "The Kokoro Hakobu Project" as its
overall moniker for related support activities conducted by Toyota
Group companies working together.
About Toyota Motor Corporation
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is the global mobility company that
introduced the Prius hybrid-electric car in 1997 and the first
mass-produced fuel cell sedan, Mirai, in 2014. Headquartered in
Toyota City, Japan, Toyota has been making cars since 1937. Today,
Toyota proudly employs 370,000 employees in communities around the
world. Together, they build around 10 million vehicles per year in
29 countries, from mainstream cars and premium vehicles to
mini-vehicles and commercial trucks, and sell them in more than 170
countries under the brands Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino. For
more information, please visit www.toyota-global.com.
Source: Toyota Motor Corporation
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