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The standard for the area of admission wards of psychiatric hospitals is broader than the current one, and the number of beds per hospital room is reduced from 10 to 6.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on the 26th that the legislation was announced on the 26th that the revision of the rules of application of the ‘Law for the Promotion of Mental Health and Support of Welfare Services for Mental Illnesses’ was announced .
This amendment is designed to completely prevent infection and control when a new coronavirus (Corona 19) infection is confirmed in a psychiatric medical institution. The main cases of Corona 19 infection that have occurred in psychiatric institutions so far include 102 Daenam Hospital in Cheongdo, Gyeongbuk in February-March, 182 in Daegu 2nd America Hospital in March-April, and 68 Dana Hospital in Seoul in September-October. .
Under the amendment, the standard for the hospitalization area will increase from 6.3 m2 (about 1.9 pyeong) to 10 m2 (about 3 pyeong) for single rooms, and from 4.3 m2 (about 1.3 pyeong) to 6.3 m2 per patient.
Furthermore, the number of beds per hospitalized room should be reduced from the current maximum of 10 beds to less than 6 beds, and the distance between the beds and the beds should be at least 1.5 m.
The amendment also included toilets, hand washing and ventilation facilities in inpatient rooms and mandatory quarantine rooms for psychiatric hospitals with more than 300 beds.
In addition, it included the reinforcement of security standards to install emergency alarm systems in all psychiatric institutions for the safety of medical personnel and patients, and install emergency doors or emergency evacuation spaces in the treatment room .
In the case of psychiatric medical institutions with more than 100 beds, the amendment was also reflected in the requirement to have at least one person in charge of security.
This amendment will apply immediately to psychiatric institutions that request permission to open new facilities after March 5 of next year.
Existing institutions must meet the relevant standards by December 31, 2022, and until then, the maximum number of beds per hospitalized room must be kept at a maximum of 8 beds and the distance between beds is 1 m.
On the other hand, as a ‘psychiatric hospital’ was recently established in the classification of medical institutions due to the revision of the medical law, among psychiatric medical institutions previously reported as nursing hospitals, if more than 50% of all approved beds for patients with mental illness were defined as “ psychiatric hospitals ” Explained.
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