Figure 1.

The impact on hospitals with a hospitalization function in Minamisoma City after the evacuation order in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear accident (except hospitals for psychiatry patients). The area where the evacuation order was issued after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident is colored orange. There were five hospitals with hospitalization functions in Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture, before the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, except hospitals for psychiatry patients. Two hospitals, Watanabe Hospital and Minamisoma Municipal Odaka Hospital, were forced to suspend their hospitalization function. After continuing with outpatient treatment in Minamisoma City, Watanabe Hospital moved to another municipality in the Soma district, thereby resuming its hospitalization function.