The government’s first executive order to secure beds for critically ill … Dissatisfaction with ‘overorder’ on site

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The government issued an administrative order to secure the first beds for national hospitals for the elderly and university hospitals, as beds for critically ill patients became scarce due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) ‘third pandemic’ .

On the 19th, according to the medical community and local governments, the Accident Recovery Headquarters (heavy copy) sent an official letter entitled ‘Order to secure a dedicated treatment bed for seriously ill patients with Corona 19’ to each local government the previous day.

In an official statement, Jungsubon said: “As the number of confirmed corona19 nationwide increases in recent years, securing beds capable of treating critically ill patients is an important situation.” .

Specifically, Jungsubon ordered to insure at least 1% of the number of beds authorized by medical institutions for higher-level hospitals and 1% or more of the number of beds approved by National University Hospitals, respectively, to insure them as dedicated beds. to treat seriously ill patients.

According to the current ‘Infectious Disease Prevention and Management Act’, the director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Mayor / Do Governor or the director of a Si / Gun / Gu can mobilize facilities as hospital beds during an infectious disease epidemic as one of the measures to prevent infectious diseases.

This is known to be the first time since the Corona 19 incident in Korea, he has been ordered to mobilize beds to a private general hospital.

As more than 1,000 new confirmed patients came out a day and the number of patients with severe gastric disorders increased, it was interpreted that they even produced a card called ‘Order to secure the bed’. Earlier, civic health and medical organizations had insisted on an emergency order to address the hospital bed shortage.

According to this measure, at least 1% of the beds approved by the health authorities in the main general hospitals called ‘Big 5’, as well as some 40 advanced general hospitals must be insured as beds dedicated to seriously ill patients.

The heavy water copy asked each local government to inform the competent medical institution of the goals and support plans to ensure a treatment bed for seriously ill patients, and to prepare a plan to secure each medical institution and submit it before the afternoon of this day.

An official from the quarantine authorities said: “Through the order to secure beds, we hope to be able to secure more than 300 beds dedicated to treatment for seriously ill patients.” said.

However, some criticize it as a measure that ignores the situation in the medical field.

An official in the medical field noted that “the government has ordered almost the same demands (safe treatment beds at the same level) to private general hospitals and national university hospitals. I do not know what difference there is between at least 1% and more than 1%”.

The official said: “Where are patients with cancer, cardiovascular and brain diseases, etc. in the existing higher general hospitals to go?” “More than 20%”, he criticized.

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