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Urging the government, including the Korean Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Limitation of the additional acquisition of hospital beds in higher general hospitals
Eleven academic societies, including the Korean Society for Critical Care Medicine, urged the government to establish large temporary hospitals in gyms and convention centers to provide adequate treatment for the rapidly increasing crown 19 critically ill.
This is because the number of confirmed cases exceeds 600 per day, and the number of patients older than 60 years, who are at high risk of progressing to serious illness, is increasing rapidly and the lack of beds for critically ill patients can lead to an unprecedented disaster situation.
Hospital rooms at the Corona 19 Temporary Hospital, which were temporarily installed at the New York and Washington DC Convention Centers, respectively (clockwise from left). A prefabricated negative pressure room manufactured by SW and Steel Life, and a prefabricated quarantine room developed by a Taiwanese company with a university hospital. / Reuters = Yonhap News, KBSIn the ‘Declaration of the Professional Academic Organization for the Establishment of an Intensive Care System in accordance with the Sudden Rise of Corona 19’, 11 academic societies announced on the 7th, “To reduce the mortality rate of Corona 19 through the appropriate intensive care treatment, it is necessary to expand and efficiently manage intensive care capabilities Emphasized.
The society said: “Securing additional beds in a high-level general hospital treating COVID-19 patients at the same time has clear limitations on the number of beds, infection control, and medical staff management.” “Establish a dedicated base hospital and a large temporary hospital. It was suggested that countermeasures be established step by step, such as the parallel.”
He then urged: “To ensure sufficient beds beyond current policy and to provide adequate treatment to the growing number of critically ill patients, please listen to the opinions of experts, including the Society, and respond wisely.”
According to the Headquarters for Security and Disaster Countermeasures, of a total of 550 beds for critically ill patients nationwide and beds for critically ill exclusively for Corona 19 patients the day before, only 8.2% (45) can accommodate to patients immediately. The government, the health authorities and the medical community are also in a difficult state of establishing an intensive care system.
Today’s statement is the Korean Society for Intensive Care and Infection Control Nursing, Korean Society for Infectious Diseases, Korean Society for Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease, Korean Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Korean Society for Preventive Medicine, Korean Society for Medical Emergency, Korean Society for Medicine-related Infectious Disease Control, Korean Society for Clinical Microbiology and Korean Society of Antibacterials The Therapeutic Society and the Korean Epidemiology Society jointly presented.
