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On the 17th, firefighters and medical personnel are transporting the confirmed person in front of Yangjiyoyang Hospital in Nam-gu, Ulsan, where a new coronavirus (Corona 19) infection has occurred. Ulsan = News 1
As group infections in nursing homes doubled in a month, the government decided to designate three nursing hospitals dedicated to infectious diseases in the metropolitan area. Most confirmed nursing home patients are at high risk of infection with the new coronavirus (Corona 19) and require intensive treatment.
The Accident Control Headquarters (Jung Soo-bon) said on the 22nd: “Now, in hospitals dedicated to infectious diseases, there are people for whom it is much more important to care or take care of than treatment.” If the symptoms get worse, we are thinking of a way to move to a treatment bed. “
Tae-ho Yoon, head of quarantine quarantine, said: “We are preparing one for each of the three metropolitan local governments, Seoul, Gyeonggi and Incheon,” he said. The government plans to use the space as a dedicated infectious disease nursing hospital, focused on the metropolitan area nursing hospitals, which currently have 100 to 300 beds.
In the third pandemic phase of Corona 19, nursing facilities became the areas most vulnerable to infection. Religious facilities (15 cases) and medical institutions and nursing facilities (10 cases) accounted for 71.2% of all group infections during the past week (13-19 days). In the case of medical institutions and nursing facilities, it doubled compared to five cases a month ago. The spread does not know how to stop. On this day alone, an additional 53 patients have been confirmed in nursing homes in Guro-gu, Seoul, with a total of 107 confirmed patients so far. In relation to nursing homes in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, 10 additional cases were confirmed and 71 cases accumulated.
Since there are many underlying diseases in old age, group infection in nursing homes often leads to death. Hyoplus Nursing Hospital, Wonmi-gu, Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, is a representative example. Here alone, three additional confirmed cases – two women in their 90s and a woman in their 80s – died the day before. They died waiting for a dedicated bed for more than a week. Only those who died of Corona 19 at Hyo Plus Nursing Hospital have risen to 17 for this day. Of these, 16 were those who died waiting to go to sleep. Deaths also continue at other nursing facilities, including one at Goyang Smile Morning Nursing Hospital and one at Goyang Beautiful Life Nursing Home.
For this reason, voices have been raised that there is a need for a dedicated treatment space for nursing homes. This is because, in many cases, they had difficulty traveling to the hospital compared to other confirmed cases because they needed an independent caregiver. The day before, Jung Eun-kyung, head of the Defense Countermeasures Headquarters (Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) said: “It is necessary to secure a hospital specialized in nursing hospitals.
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