As of April 4, 22 surgeons were admitted to hospitals in the metropolitan area. To be treated for critical corona patients

Check-in 2020.09.02 14:00

22 military doctors admitted to private hospitals on the 4th instead of strikers
Ministry of Health and Welfare “The request of the military surgeon for a national score is correct, but it was suspended due to postponement of the test”

To solve the problem of the medical vacuum caused by closures of important medical groups, the Ministry of National Defense decided to put a military doctor in the private medical field for a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) at the request of the Central Accident Control Center . In the future, the Defense Ministry plans to provide hospital beds for Corona 19 treatment at the Capital Hospital of the Armed Forces and to support surgeons in public hospitals, life treatment centers and screening clinics.

As reported by the Ministry of Defense on the 2nd, the Central Accident Response Headquarters recently requested the dispatch of a total of 53 military doctors to attend Corona 19, of which it has been decided to send 22 people to 9 medical institutions with priority from day 4. The remaining staff will be dispatched as soon as the application schedule and medical institution are confirmed. The Ministry of National Defense has already supported 24 military doctors and nurses at the Incheon airport quarantine station.

The first shipment of surgeons was Incheon Medical Center (2 people), Inha University Hospital (2 people), Gachon Gil Hospital (2 people), Postal Officials Education Center (1 person), National Institute of International Education (3 people), the KOICA Training Center (3 people), the Bukbu Municipality Hospital (3 people), Seonam Municipal Hospital (3 people) and Seobuk Municipal Hospital (3 people).

The Defense Ministry said: “The eight beds of the Capital Hospital of the Armed Forces, which were operated as nationally designated negative pressure beds, were converted into beds for critical patients corona 19 and began to operate with 68 doctors and personnel of Nursing”. “We are going to treat critically ill patients.” The Ministry of Defense is consulting with the Central Accident Response Headquarters to secure additional state-designated negative pressure beds at the Armed Forces Capital Hospital.

In addition, the Ministry of Health and Welfare planned to use military medical personnel as scoring members of the national exam for doctors. According to the Medical Resources Policy Division of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, a memorandum of support for scoring members was sent to the Ministry of National Defense on the 30th, two days before the examination for the national examination at that time, and on the day 31, the Armed Forces Medical Command delivered the relevant memorandum to the Seongnam Armed Forces Capital Hospital in Gyeonggi-do. The official memorandum contained a request to apply for a specialist (surgeon) at the National Examination Institute for Health Professionals (Kuksiwon) from 1 to 4 this month.

There are a total of 21 scoring members (including 3 members in charge), and most of them are recommended by professors of medical schools. There was a standard of scoring, but when the medical profession was controversial about a problem with the military surgeon in charge, the government finally said: “It is an application for the national examination of the military surgeon, but the test was suspended.”

The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare held an emergency press conference around 4 p.m. on the 31st of last month, a day before the national doctor’s exam, which was scheduled for the 1st of this month, and delayed the testing schedule. for a week. stalking. When medical professors approached to support the strike, they said they would not face the scoring committee.

On the 31st of last month, the former president of the medical association Roh Hwan-gyu posted on his social media (SNS) on the 31st of last month: “The announcement of postponement for a week in the doctor’s office probably took time (because it took) prepare the scoring committee “. He criticized it as a country where the military surgeon who was chosen by lot becomes a member of the National Medical Exam score, a country that has never experienced.

As the controversy grew, the Ministry of Social Welfare said: “As the practical test was postponed, (the surgeon’s support) was canceled.”

Sohn Young-rae, head of the Accident Control Headquarters Strategic Planning Division, in a regular briefing on the day, said: “Some of the teachers who decided to score on the situation before postponing the national poem for a week they were notified that it is difficult to score due to the increase in corona19 treatment work and the group closure of the specialty. “For this reason, I have requested a small number of personnel (military doctors) who will support the scoring to the Ministry of Defense. It was determined that the specialty of the score could be divided into several parts depending on the surgeon who came to support “.

Spokesman Sohn, however, dismissed the controversy, saying: “Currently, the need has disappeared as staff have postponed state affairs for a week.