The ambulance crew and local fire department contacted 30 hospitals before one of the hospitals finally said it could admit her - about two hours after her family had called for an ambulance, Matsumoto said.
The woman’s heart stopped when she was taken to Osaka Minami Medical Centre, according to Matsumoto.
She was resuscitated at the hospital but died on Wednesday, according to hospital official Hiroshi Tone.
Matsumoto said the other hospitals rejected the woman saying their hospitals were full or their doctors were not immediately available to treat her.
Last year, a pregnant woman in western Japan died after being refused admission by about 20 hospitals that said they were full.
The latest case underscores Japan’s health care woes, in part created by a shortage of doctors in the country’s rapidly aging society. Critics say long working hours and a government policy change several years ago to keep the number of doctors down are to blame.
Japanese woman dies after 30 hospitals reject her : thewest.com.au
So that is why they need robots in their hospitals...?
as Popgadget says: "If this is where the future services industry of Japan is heading, it will only add to the woes of an already disgruntled and out-of-work labor force. With all due respect to the tremendous applications that robots have had in the manufacturing industry, when it comes to caring, give me a human being any day. No robotic hospitals for me" (link)