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Director Kim Byeong-geun
On day 13, 1030 confirmed patients with a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) were counted. There were only 1002 cases in Korea. This is the first time it has exceeded 1,000 since the first outbreak of patients on January 20. As the number of patients increased rapidly, the number of critically ill beds available immediately fell to 17 nationwide. The metropolitan area is particularly poor, so there are only 3 in Seoul and 2 in Gyeonggi, and there is no Incheon at all.
Kim Byeong-geun, Director of Pyeongtaek Park Ae Hospital
“I tried to save one more person”
Provided as a dedicated hospital for critical corona patients
Acquired 220 new desperate beds
Principal Kim volunteered at Daegu Treatment Center in March
President Moon Jae-in urgently chaired a meeting of the Disaster and Security Countermeasures Headquarters this afternoon, saying: “If we cannot break the current spread, we must review the third step of social distancing, and the third step is the last. resource”. First, stage 2.5 of the metropolitan area was maintained.
The field of medicine is nearing a limit. A university hospital in Seoul hastily attached a ventilator to a patient who was rushed to the emergency room that day to overcome the hump. It turned out to be a Corona 19 patient. However, the COVID-19 intensive care unit at this hospital was full. I called several other hospitals and managed to find a place and send him there. Recently, a public hospital in the metropolitan area made it difficult at the request of the authorities. However, I did not receive a patient with Corona 19. There was no doctor. Most doctors were already clinging to COVID-19. A hospital doctor said, “The situation in Daegu in February and March is happening in Seoul. In this way, after only two weeks, the number of seriously ill patients will increase to 700 (179 on day 13), and people will die from the impossibility of installing a ventilator ”.
Stop the collapse of the medical system -. This is the most urgent task at the moment. In Korea, 90% of hospital beds nationwide are in private hospitals. Private hospitals cannot be recruited by force. Faced with this situation, there is a doctor who set up the entire general hospital as a base hospital dedicated to critical corona patients19. Just like Daegu Dongsan Hospital did in Daegu in February. The main character is Kim Byeong-geun (pictured), director of Park Ae Hospital, Pharae Medical Foundation, Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do. In a phone call with JoongAng Ilbo on the 13th, Director Kim said, “I thought someone had to come save one more person as I saw the continuing shortage of hospital beds for critically ill patients. He said, “We want to fulfill our role as a treatment hospital.”
The hospital began preparing to receive a critically ill patient with Corona 19 in consultation with the Central Accident Control Center (heavy water version). Corona 19 patients are expected to be welcomed by emptying all 220 beds. Director Kim said: “We are relocating the space between the beds taking into account the movements of medical staff and patients.” “We are planning to receive 80 to 100 semi-intensive patients who can improve their condition with only oxygen therapy. We will complete the installation and so on. “You are also considering receiving confirmed corona19 patients in need of dialysis using a kidney dialysis device. Even after completing the role of a dedicated hospital, the stigma of ‘Corona Hospital’ may remain, so what? why did you withdraw?
- There is nothing for the hospital.
- “As much as the government promised compensation, I believed and applied. There may be a situation where the government says ‘I don’t know’, but that’s later, and I think we should do it with a sense of mission rather than expecting compensation. “
- How are hospitalized patients doing?
- “I am going to persuade the government and send it elsewhere. I think that if medical staff ask for understanding and persuade patients, they will understand. “
“It is not when it comes to profit and loss, if other hospitals also requested beds”
17 ready-to-use beds for severe coronavirus patients nationwide
Park Ae Hospital volunteered for a hospital dedicated to Corona 19. An official from Jung Soo-bon said, “I asked the Korea Hospital Association to receive an application for a hospital dedicated to Corona 19, and when it became known the news, the Philae Hospital side said: ‘We will empty everything. “It’s possible?” Pyeongtaek City plans to guide general patients to outpatient treatment by sending a text message stating that Park Ae Hospital has been designated as a dedicated hospital.
Director Kim is not the first to undergo Corona 19 treatment. In March, he opened the center as director of the life treatment center at Daegu Bank Training Institute and cared for patients wearing full body protective clothing. . Currently, he operates a corona screening clinic. Director Kim said, “I decided to volunteer in Daegu to practice the ‘philanthropy’ that the hospital has been pursuing,” and said, “I was proud and proud when the patient received a negative test and left the center.”
Director Kim said, “Our hospital can serve as a base hospital for patients in the Pyeongtaek, Osan, Anseong and Chungcheong areas, but it cannot accommodate all patients. Besides our hospital, it would be nice if there were many other hospitals in each area together. ”
After his first medical service in the Philippines in 1988, Director Kim has provided medical services from time to time. Last April, I volunteered to a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh with an employee. It is a place where large and small disturbances do not end. After Dr. Kim’s visit, the government of Bangladesh blocked medical services for security reasons. Park Ae Hospital is the first general hospital (220 beds) in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, opened in 1957. It employs 230 people, including 130 doctors and nurses.
Reporter Lee Tae-yoon [email protected]
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