TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room— A life that cannot be saved by waiting

Overview

TOKYO MER is formed by order from the Governor of Tokyo. The name of the group stands for TOKYO Mobile Emergency Room. The members are emergency care professionals and they are to go to sites of dangerous accidents and disasters by ER car. Their ER car is a large vehicle equipped with the latest medical devices and an operating area. There, TOKYO MER saves lives of the injured. Kōta Kitami is a doctor for TOKYO MER and its leader. He holds a strong conviction that, regardless of the dangers, he will go to accident sites to save lives.

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Current EpisodeSeason 1 • Episode 1Aired: 2021-07-0469 min

1. A life that cannot be saved by waiting

Tokyo MER was launched to save the lives of patients by rushing to the scene of accidents, disasters, and incidents. There are 7 members of the emergency team: Chief Doctor Kitami, Resident Tsurumaki Hina, Nurse Kuramae Natsume, Vietnamese Nurse Hoang Lan Minh, Anesthesiologist Fuyuki Jiro, civil engineer Tokumaru Motoichi, and the bureaucrat and doctor Otowa Nao. All of them are life-saving medical specialists. During the inauguration ceremony, the team have to rush to the of a serious bus accident. There were many patients waiting and the team takes on the mission of operating on multiple patients at the scene of an extremely dangerous accident. Kitami's life-saving act, transcending the common sense of doctors, is regarded as a problem by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Tokyo MER, which faces the crisis of dissolution soon after inauguration is faced with a difficult decision when a factory explosion occurs.