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OGAWA, FUJIKO ( Shiokawa) Statement of Ogawa (4 June, in 420-12 June report) 37, head nurse at Army Officers Club Hospital from March 1944 to December 4th. Nurses at Officers Club Hospital: Kame Ikeda - Surgery Tsutako Tanaka - Internal Disease Chizuko Nakae - Surgery Toshiko Nishimura - Surgery Kyoko Oba - Internal Disease Eiko Tone - Dentistry Reiko Takeji - Surgery (FNU) Kamegawa - Dentistry Ogawa attended the operations to supervise sterilization of instruments and checked condition of patients (surgery), gave medicine, injections and X-rays, (internal disease) also worked with dentistry. The hospital was taken over by the army about 20-23 February 1945. Hishiro Matake took charge as Director in March, but was drafted into the army between 1 May and 10 May and no director after that. Hospital had 3 Section Chiefs: Internal Diseases - 2nd Lt. Kanehisa Surgery - P.O. Komori - 2nd Lt. Kishi, assistant Dentistry - Dr. Ito - Dr. Murakami, assistant The hospital had a small research lab, doesn’t believe any of the doctors used it. Komori was experimenting with sea water injections for various diseases, but mostly for neuralgia, and had used it on patients. He had the pharmacist prepare the water for him, one Junjiro Shinno, who had previously worked with Komori at Miyagi Surgical Hospital. Ogawa assisted Komori in sea water injecttions in absence of a surgical nurse. About 10-20 cc of sea water solution was injected into the artery in the area of the neuritis. In light cases it would clear up a condition, but in serious cases it would just relieve the pain. Komori was often absent from the hospital to go to the University or WAH. Ogawa doesn’t believe that he had any duties at the University although he had been with the Ishiyama Clinic and if he wanted to find out something he went there. Komori was considered one of the best doctors in Kyushu, was friendly with high ranking Officers at WA, including Horiuchi, staff officers, and officers of the Medical Section. Sato came often for treatment. The night Komori was wounded he attended a party given for Mrs. Horiuchi because she had been treated at the University Hospital, and Komori had made arrangements for her treatment. Komori in June 1945 told Ogawa that there were a lot of fleas and bed bugs in WAH and he was going to work on an experiment to get rid of them. OGAWA -2- Around 1900-2000 in last part of May or first of June 1945, Komori came back to the hospital from the University, and he told Ogawa that he had done a gall bladder operation on an American Prisoner. Once Komori brought back from the University something in a metal container wrapped in a cloth, said it should not be touched since he wanted to take notes on it. About a week or 10 days later, Ogawa saw something hanging on the left hand post in the doorway of the boiler room, through the window of the surgical treatment room, withe the peelings hanging down. Nurse Nakae wondered if it wasn’t what the army doctor (Komori) brought back to make notes on. The metal container that Komori brought back was placed on his desk. Ogawa believes that it was about 20 days before this that Komori mentioned his experiments for the extermination of fleas and bed bugs. Ogawa believes that Horiuchi came to the Officers Club Hospital while Komori was there once in March, didn’t visit again until Hospital was bombed. Doesn’t know whether Maekawa was with him, but he was with Horiuchi most of the times. Komori liked to experiment with new medicines which he got from his older brother, who was principal of the Kumamoto Pharmaciutical College. The new medicine he experimented with most was that of sea water for neuralgia. |