PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To call another medical worker as soon as possible when moving a patient to an empty sickroom.SOLUTION: Sickroom information indicating the capacity of a sickroom and the number of patients staying in the sickroom is stored in a storage section 4. A radio transmitter 10 is attached to a bed. A radio reader 20 which reads a radio signal when the radio transmitter 10 passes the doorway of the sickroom is attached to the vicinity of the doorway. When a radio reader 20 of a sickroom which has no patient reads a radio signal from a radio transmitter 10 after a radio reader 20 reads the radio signal at the doorway of a sickroom whose capacity and the number of patients are two or more patients, a notification section 3 notifies request for assistance of another medical worker in the sickroom. Thereby, another notification is performed at the timing when the bed is brought into the sickroom of destination, and assistance of another medical worker can be requested as soon as possible.
