Currently, the Department of Clinical Infectious Diseases in NEKKEN runs the general internal medicine beds and tuberculosis beds on the first floor of the Nagasaki University Hospital International Medical Center and has been working closely with the Department of General Medicine since 2018. The Department of Infectious Diseases was renamed the Center for International Infectious Disease Prevention and Treatment in late FY2024, and merged with the Infection Control and Education Center and the Infectious Diseases Expert Training Center into the General Division of Infectious Diseases.
We are primarily responsible for treating patients with complicated infectious diseases such as sepsis, unknown febrile illness, rickettsiosis, SFTS, and tropical infectious diseases of returned travelers. Additionally, we receive over 700 consultation cases per year, referred by almost all the other departments, suspected infectious diseases. We also operate a travel clinic for international travelers.
We take a major role in training and education undergraduate students, resident physicians and infectious diseases fellows. One of our missions is to support medical doctors who aim to work abroad as clinician volunteers or clinical researchers. We regularly organize clinical case conference in English. Staff and resident doctors are often dispatched to hospitals in the tropics of Asia and Africa, which helps us accumulate our knowledge and experience with clinical tropical medicine.