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70 people died in hospitals and other medical institutions.
“There is no death room, and the last greetings from the grieving family”
Visiting Corona 19, which has a high death rate for seniors, is also restricted
Proposal of “It must reach the end of its useful life for those that exceed a certain size”
Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, announced on the 19th that he will cohort the eighth floor of a nursing hospital where he confirmed the crown. Yunhap news
“I couldn’t even keep up with my mother’s death, but I was surprised to see their corpses laid out in the first-floor lobby of the nursing hospital.” ㅅ (58), who lives in the metropolitan city of Gwangju, is heartbroken when he remembers the death of his mother. Geun’s mother, Jang Amugae, passed away on 24 last month at the age of 84 at a nursing hospital in Buk-gu, Gwangju. It was 7 months after my mother, who had suffered from dementia (grade 2) for years, was admitted to a nursing hospital in December of last year. Mr. G said that as he thought about the actions of the hospital just before his elderly mother’s death, he felt angry. The nursing hospital called the family on the 23rd of last month at 11pm and said: “Because the condition is deteriorating, you can call even at dawn, so please wait.” The ㅅ family, who stayed up all night with their eyes open, pleaded the next day at 10:25 am, saying, “I want to wear protective clothing and see my elderly mother one last time.” The side of the nursing hospital promised: “I will move to the room of the dying so that I can see one by one when it is critical.” However, the ㅅ family could not die. On the 24th, at 12: 2 pm on the 24th, Mr. G received a phone call telling him to “come to the hospital as soon as possible,” and 12 minutes later, he received a phone call informing him of the death of his elderly mother. Only the oldest daughter, G, dressed in protective clothing and was tearfully reunited with her now-dead mother in the intensive care unit on the sixth floor. “The mother’s body was immediately moved to the first floor and placed as an object in a partitioned space near the bathroom,” said Mr. G.
On the morning of the 24th, at the Corona 19 Detection Clinic at the Seongbuk-gu Health Center in Seoul, medical staff are giving citizens a guide on collecting samples. Yunhap news
The nursing hospital said: “A double room patient room is vacated so that the family can have the last visit, and the death room is set up autonomously. In Jang’s case, when the condition deteriorated rapidly, it was communicated immediately but died before the family arrived. ” (In other nursing hospitals) When the Ungu car arrives, the corpse of the deceased is immediately transferred to the funeral room, but in our hospital, the family on the first floor is giving the last time to face the deceased ”. In the era of Corona 19, a lonely landscape where even the last goodbye to a loved one is not fitting is turning into everyday life. In particular, since social distancing has risen to the second stage, it is difficult to even visit families with the elderly in hospitals or nursing hospitals, and older people staying in nursing institutions have no choice but to end up alone. with their lives. In particular, corona 19 confirmed patients are difficult to visit with their families even if their lives are in danger, and they will be cremated immediately after their death. Of the approximately 300 deaths from Corona 19, 80% of people aged 70 years and over account for.
Gwangju Mayor Yong-seop Yong-seop visited the Gwangju Fire School Life Treatment Center in February and asked for the greetings of an elderly man who was released from Corona 19 quarantine. Provided by the City of Gwangju
Therefore, it is pointed out that in the era of the Crown 19 an alternative must be prepared so that death can occur while maintaining a minimum of dignity. In June, the Ho-young Joo Clinic proposed a “partial amendment to medical law” requiring the installation of death rooms in general hospitals and nursing hospitals of a certain size. It was started in 2018 and was automatically scrapped, but started again when interest in the death room facility increased due to the Corona 19 incident. According to data released by the Ho-Young Joo Clinic, 76.2% of domestic deaths in 2017 died in medical institutions such as hospitals and clinics (see table), yet only 17 out of 42 advanced hospitals (40%) have death rooms. . There are no statistics on how many of the national nursing hospitals (1587) and general hospitals (320) have waiting rooms. “It is a pity that there are not many spaces to end our life with our family with grace. It is mandatory to install a death room in medical institutions of a certain size or more ”.
On the afternoon of the 19th, a patient with Corona 19 enters the hospital building to be hospitalized at the Seoul Medical Center in Jungnang-gu, Seoul. Yunhap news
Under current medical law, only specialized inpatient hospice institutions are required to install more than one death room. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said: “Although 87 hospitals specializing in palliative care for terminal cancer patients have separate waiting rooms, there are no legal regulations for the establishment of death rooms in general hospitals and nursing hospitals.” In medical institutions without a waiting room, if a patient is expected to die, the patient is transferred to the intensive care unit or dies in a shared room, inevitably causing inconvenience to other patients and their families. Nursing hospitals require that if a waiting room is installed or a single room is used as a waiting room, the medical insurance rate applies. Deok-Hyun Son, president of the Korea Nursing Hospital Association, said: “Like Japan and Taiwan (Taiwan), we need to have high-quality services and facilities by paying a reasonable fee for the use of the waiting room.” . The Korean Hospital Association expressed the view that “hospitals should autonomously choose whether or not to install the death room.” Shin Min-ho, a professor at Chonnam National University (preventive medicine), said: “If Corona 19 patients are in an emergency, we must find a way for their families to see them outside of the hospital room.” Time to take action. “By Jeong Dae-ha, Staff Reporter [email protected]
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