[사회]To secure Corona 19 beds … “Rehab patients leave until today”

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While the warning that the number of patients with corona will increase, there will be a shortage of hospital rooms is a situation that had already been experienced during the first pandemic in March, it became difficult to avoid criticism that the health authorities only emphasized the withdrawal of citizens, but then they secured the hospital rooms and caused confusion.

In the end, a public hospital notified about 100 patients in the hospital to move to another location today, prompting a backlash from patients.

Reporter Choi Jae-min reports.

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A patient in his 70s, who was admitted to Seoul Central Veterans Hospital last month due to a stroke, quickly packed up.

I got a notification from the hospital asking me to leave because I had to build a crown room.

[김 모 씨 / 서울중앙보훈병원 입원 환자 보호자 : 뇌경색을 앓았는데 혈관성 치매가 왔었어요. 그래서 병동에 있다가 다리를 못 쓰고 누워있으니까 힘이 없잖아요. 아니 지금 퇴원해서 가는 거예요. 어쩔 수 없이….]

About 100 patients were notified to leave the Seoul Central Veterans Hospital.

Due to the nature of rehab rooms with many elderly patients, there are many seriously ill patients.

Finding other hospitals is not easy, and even if you do return home, careful treatment is difficult, making it difficult for guardians.

[서울 중앙보훈병원 입원 환자 보호자 : 집으로 모시고 온다고 해도 석션하고 이래야 하는 사람들은 대책도 없이 어떻게 나가라고 하느냐고 했더니, 중대본부에서 지침이 내려온 거라서 자기들은 힘이 없다고….]

The hospital explained that it is an unavoidable measure to comply with the government policy of ensuring beds.

[병원 관계자 : (정부 통보는) 브리핑 끝나고 받았습니다. 국가적인 비상상황이라 공공의료기관으로서 정부 정책에 부응하기 위해 환자분들께 전원 요청을 드리고 있습니다.]

In the immediate aftermath of the first coronavirus pandemic, medical scenes have consistently petitioned the government to create a corona-only hospital.

However, as quarantine authorities, who had not taken any action for several months, belatedly began securing hospital rooms, some public hospitals were forced to fire existing patients.

Immediately after crown 19 is confirmed in the metropolitan area, more than 500 patients are waiting to be hospitalized at home or admitted to life treatment centers.

I’m Jaemin Choi from YTN.

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