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Many elderly confirmed patients with underlying diseases … “I need to get vaccinated quickly”
Lack of beds for severe patients … I hide while waiting for an isolated task
National petition asking for support for nursing facility workforce, 10,000 people agreed
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In nursing facilities across the country, deaths from the outbreak of infection with the new coronavirus (Corona 19) continue. Many of them are elderly with underlying illnesses, and deaths in quarantine have occurred in nursing hospitals without being assigned a dedicated bed, and quarantine authorities are urgently preparing countermeasures.
According to the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters on the 29th and each city / province, 57 people died after the crown19 was confirmed in nursing hospitals or nursing centers after January of this year, starting on the 28th. In particular, the situation at Hyoplus Nursing Hospital in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, where more than 160 confirmed patients, including medical staff and residents, were serious is serious. On the 13th of this month, the cumulative death toll rose to 38 after the first death at this nursing hospital.
The situation in other hospitals and nursing homes nationwide is not much different. At Ulsan Yangjiyoyang Hospital, 24 out of 167 confirmed residents died, and 7 out of 67 confirmed residents at True Love Nursing Home in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do.
Related confirmed cases from these nursing facilities are also snowballing. As of the last 27 days ▲ Guro-gu nursing home in Seoul-accumulated nursing home 136 people ▲ Hyoplus elderly hospital in Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do 164 people ▲ Canaan nursing home in Gimje-si, Jeonbuk, 91 people ▲ True love nursing home in Cheongju-si, Chungbuk 105 people ▲ Large-scale group infection, including 24 It is occurring across the country.
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The problem is that the number of seriously ill patients has become scarce due to the overlap of a group infection started in a nursing home and a tertiary pandemic at the national level, and the number of deaths continues due to no treatment. timely. Of the 38 deaths at Bucheon Hyoplus Nursing Hospital, 27 died while waiting for a specific bed assignment. At this nursing hospital, 31 people, including 21 confirmed residents and 10 medical staff, are waiting for a dedicated bed allocation, but there is no place for seriously ill patients in the metropolitan area, so the possibility of continued deaths cannot be ruled out. .
Since the 6th of this month, even at Ulsan Yangjiyoyang Hospital, where a cohort (same group) was quarantined, 5 of the 24 dead have died without being assigned a dedicated bed. This nursing hospital was also unable to immediately transfer confirmed patients who tested positive among hospitalized patients at the beginning of group infection to another hospital. This is because Ulsan University Hospital, the only base hospital in the Ulsan region, did not have enough beds either.
Even if they tried to move to a medical facility in another nearby area, most of the confirmed patients were elderly, had underlying illnesses, and were bed-living ‘conspiracy patients’, thus unable to travel long distances. While handling confirmed and unconfirmed patients together, if there is an additional bed due to discharge from Ulsan University Hospital, the situation is to transfer confirmed patients with serious conditions first.
Quarantine authorities also pushed through a plan to transfer unconfirmed people to external private hospitals instead of confirmed patients who were having difficulty securing beds, but it ultimately failed.
Finally, the Korean Medical Association urged the government to lift the cohort’s quarantine and quickly transfer patients to a dedicated bed, saying that the nursing hospital cohort’s quarantine is making the patient’s condition worse. The medical association held a press conference at Bucheon Hyoplus Nursing Hospital on the same day, emphasizing that “the isolation of the cohort is ultimately due to a shortage of beds, so the government must do everything possible to ensure hospitals and beds exclusively for corona19 so patients can be moved quickly. ” .
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As such cases of elderly patients dying because they were not allocated a bed in a timely manner, public opinion is on the rise, urging that special measures be prepared. On the 28th, the notice board for the Blue House National Petition read: “ Please rescue patients in nursing hospitals who are quarantined in a cohort and trapped like a Japanese cruise ship, ” and as of 29, more than 10,000 netizens agreed.
The author, who said he is a medical staff working at a nursing hospital in Seoul, where the cohort is currently in quarantine, said: “If the existing nursing staff are also ‘burned out’ and soon come out, no one will be able to care for the patients. I appealed. “Patients and caregivers who are in bed with confirmed and untreated are shaking with anxiety,” he said. “Unless human resources are supported, the number of deaths will increase further because they cannot be adequately treated.” He also called for the situation not to be resolved with the capacities of the local health authorities and for the government department dedicated to the management of nursing homes and nursing homes to be created to mobilize all administrative power.
/ Internal Reporter Park Yena [email protected]
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