Summary
- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited a hospital in northeastern Japan to understand the local medical services.
- Kishida inspected reception work at Nihonkai General Hospital in Sakata, where staff numbers were reduced by using My Number social security cards integrated with health insurance certificates.
- The government plans to phase out existing health insurance certificates by December and promote the use of integrated My Number cards.
- Kishida emphasized the need to increase card usage, offering financial benefits to hospitals and encouraging the public to adopt them.
