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The government has decided to expand two base-type life treatment centers with 700 people in the metropolitan area for the weekend in order to deal with confirmed cases of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 1), which pours into more than 1,000 people for three consecutive days.
At a regular Corona 19 briefing on the 18th, Son Young-rae, head of the Strategic Planning Division at Accident Recovery Headquarters (heavy water), said: “We plan to establish two life-type treatment centers. based in the metropolitan area with a stopover of 700 people for the weekend. “We plan to immediately hospitalize patients who are at the border of the Department of Life Therapy Center.”
“The basic life treatment center strengthens the medical staff and equipment and is in good health, but it focuses on patients who cannot enter the existing life treatment center due to mild fever, age 60 to 64 years, blood pressure discharge or diabetes. It will be managed as ”, he added.
Sohn, head of the Strategic Planning Team, emphasized that he is focusing his efforts on securing the beds so that more than 1,000 patients a day can cope with the situation that continues to occur.
To this end, the government has recently secured 3,153 beds in 13 vital treatment centers, 9 hospitals dedicated to infectious diseases, 353 beds, and 55 beds for critical and semi-critical patients.
It means that 3,561 additional beds have been secured since the announcement of the plan to secure 10,000 beds on the 13th.
Currently, there are only 45 beds for critically ill patients left in the entire country and 4 beds in the metropolitan area, but it was decided to provide additional intensive care beds for each hospital, centered on the National University Hospital.
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Consequently, as of the 17th, the utilization rate of life treatment centers decreased to 45% nationally and 43% in the metropolitan area.
The operating rate of hospitals dedicated to infectious diseases, mainly hospitalized by confirmed patients in severe and high-risk groups, is 65% nationwide and 77% in the metropolitan area, with capacity for about 5,100 people in the area metropolitan.
Work is also underway to designate a dedicated hospital at the Corona 19 base, allowing all or part of the beds to be used for Corona 19 treatment.
On the 17th, four hospitals, including the Pyeongtaek Park Ae Hospital on the 12th, and the Ilsan Hospital of the Health Insurance Corporation, were designated as dedicated hospitals.
Through this, 169 beds for seriously ill patients and 172 beds for moderate patients will be expanded in early January next year.
“We plan to appoint an additional hospital in charge of the base in consultation with the medical community,” said Son, head of the Strategic Planning Group. “In the joint response center that assigns patients in the metropolitan area, 2 doctors and 10 administrative personnel are added to increase the speed of assignment and management blindness. We are going to remove the rent,” he explained.
He said: “We are also supporting the medical staff through the expansion of the beds,” he said. “Currently, public medical personnel, such as public health physicians and military physicians, have been deployed preventively, and private medical personnel are also recruited as much as possible through cooperation with medicine-related organizations.” . Saying.
He added: “The Disaster Medical Support Team formed by the Korean Medical Association currently has more than 1,000 volunteers and is working with the association to devise measures to improve work standards so that they can actively participate in corona treatment19.”
According to Jungsubon, 867 corona19 patients were assigned to hospitals or life treatment centers in the metropolitan area the day before.
Currently, there are 496 patients waiting more than a day, and the government has set a goal of ensuring that there are no waiting patients by improving the efficiency of rapid patient allocation and management and the operation of the bed.
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