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[사진 = 연합뉴스]Samsung Electronics Vice President Lee Jae-yong, who was imprisoned in the Seoul Detention Center, received emergency surgery at Seoul’s Samsung Hospital in the early morning of the 20th for appendicitis. Medical staff at the detention center first recommended external medical treatment, but an appendix was reported to have burst during transfer after refusing it for fear of misunderstandings about special treatment. Progress after surgery is said to be good.
According to business and legal matters on the 21st, Vice President Lee complained of abdominal pain since the 19th, and at 5 pm on the same day, the medical staff of the prison authorities recommended external treatment with the finding of appendicitis. However, Vice President Lee is known to have expressed his intention to investigate the situation until the weekend, saying they would not treat him in a special way. Subsequently, Vice President Lee complained of extreme pain, and in the end, the medical director of the detention center transferred Lee to Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital in Pyeongchon, Gyeonggi, a Ministry of Justice-designated hospital near the detention center for primary. treatment. Vice President Lee said that when the pain started at the detention center, he was concerned that it would be a nuisance to the guards, so he tried to endure it as much as possible and then spoke to the guards only when he couldn’t. bear it.
It is reported that the Sacred Heart Hospital decided to move to the Samsung Seoul Hospital, a hospital for the elderly, as it determined that there was concern that the situation could worsen, such as the spread of foreign substances to the peritoneum due to the burst appendix. Detainees in detention centers may be transferred to a higher level hospital or other hospital if they receive the opinion of a designated hospital. However, it is known that appendicitis flared when appendicitis progressed considerably during transport.
Vice President Lee arrived at Seoul Samsung Hospital at midnight on the 19th, underwent emergency surgery for about an hour, and is currently resting at Seoul Samsung Hospital. The operation was successful once and the course doesn’t seem bad either. Although he is being treated at the Samsung Hospital in Seoul, he is being imprisoned and managed by the Ministry of Justice, so Samsung is indirectly hearing about Lee’s condition.
Appendicitis, commonly called appendicitis, causes severe pain on the right side. The appendix is an organ attached to the end of the appendix, and appendicitis is an acute disease in which the appendix is inflamed. If left unattended, the appendix at the end of the appendix bursts, causing foreign substances to spread to the peritoneum and spread to peritonitis. In this case, the infection must be prevented by flushing the organs and, in severe cases, it can turn into sepsis.
General appendicitis surgery can be discharged within a week if there are no complications after surgery, but if the appendix bursts, treatment may be required for up to a month, depending on the degree of intestinal infection. Consequently, there is a possibility that the trial on the Samsung C&T merger, scheduled for the 25th, will be delayed. Vice President Lee was sentenced to two years and six months in prison in a repatriation trial for the abandonment of the National case. Nongdan in January, and is in jail after being incarcerated in court.
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