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In Bucheon, Gyeonggi province, the number of confirmed corona19 patients who died awaiting bed allocation increased to three.
According to Gyeonggi-do and Bucheon-si on the 18th, three confirmed patients aged 70-80 who were waiting for a bed assignment at Hyoplus Nursing Hospital in Sang-dong, Bucheon-si, where a cohort (the same group) I was in quarantine, they died.
Among them, A, a man in his 80s, was quarantined after testing positive for Corona 19 on the 12th and died on the 16th, four days later.
Two 70-year-old men who tested positive on day 11 died of deteriorating health during the cohort quarantine on days 13 and 14, respectively.
On Day 11, Hyoplus Nursing Hospital had 67 confirmed cases, including staff and patients, and entered cohort quarantine.
As of day 17, the number of confirmed cases accumulated in this nursing hospital was 128 and 4 of them died.
Excluding the three who died while waiting for the bed assignment, the other died on the 17th, after being confirmed on the 11th and being assigned a bed to the Icheon Hospital of the Gyeonggi Medical Center.
A Bucheon city official said: “A and others had an underlying illness and are lying in bed due to their discomfort.”
The official said: “Two doctors are examining patients in a cohort and classifying the patients. The public health center (Gyeonggi-do) continues to request an exclusive bed, but the number of confirmed patients has not increased over time.” he explained. .
In Gyeonggi-do, there are 251 people waiting for hospitals who have not been allocated a bed, and most of them are known to be patients with moderate disease.
Also, as the hospital bed shortage intensified, the patients confirmed by Gyeonggi-do were transferred to a medical institution in the non-capital region, Jeollanam-do.
Gyeonggi Province announced that 13 patients with mild symptoms were additionally transferred to Mokpo City Medical Center in Jeollanam-do starting at 1 p.m.
An official from Gyeonggi province explained, “The Jeonnam-do side sent six confirmed patients on the 11th with the proposal to provide a bed after learning about the situation due to Gyeonggi-do’s lack of medical resources.
The reason for transferring confirmed patients in Gyeonggi-do to local medical facilities some 300 km from the metropolitan area, such as Seoul and Incheon, is that the shortage of treatment beds for Corona 19 is so severe.
In a briefing the day before, Gyeonggi-do Corona 19 emergency response manager Lim Seung-gwan said: “In nursing hospitals with many elderly and underlying diseases, the number of confirmed patients continues and the allocation of beds is being delayed. “
At 0 o’clock on that day, the Corona 19 treatment hospital bed utilization rate in Tokyo was 86.8% (667 of 768 used), higher than the previous day (84.6%).
At 0 am on the 17th, 4 of the 49 beds for critically ill patients were abandoned and only 2 were exhausted in one day.
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