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Expanded management of the range of high-risk installations from 5 existing types to 12 types
Gyeonggi-do is conducting an intensive quarantine at the elderly welfare facilities and mental care facilities, where the infection of the COVID-19 group continues. As the range of high-risk facilities subject to intensive management is expanded from the existing 5 types to 12 types, an infection control training support group composed of experts is formed to provide on-site training.
Gyeonggi Province held an emergency press conference on the 2nd and announced a ‘response plan for the outbreak of corona patients in vulnerable facilities’ containing these details.
Im Seung-gwan from the Gyeonggi-do Corona 19 Emergency Response Team said: “Of the 5,441 confirmed Corona 19 cases in Gyeonggi-do at 0 o’clock in the day, 309 (5.68%) are patients infected and resident in medical institutions, nursing homes, social welfare facilities, etc., as a typical medical infection. ” He explained the importance of the intensive quarantine of these facilities.
He added that “the simple mortality rate of 309 infections of medical origin is 11.65%, more than eleven times higher than that of other cases (1.04%). We must concentrate all our capacities to avoid the spread of high-risk spaces ”.
In fact, the number of medicine-related infections in the province accounted for just 2.03% of all those infected in August, but it rose sharply to 6.78% in September and 13.53% in October.
According to this, the five existing facilities (hospitals for the elderly, nursing homes, day and night protective services for the elderly, psychiatric hospitals, mental rehabilitation, nursing facilities) and 7 facilities (housing facilities for the elderly, nursing facilities, disabled housing, community rehabilitation for the disabled) Plans to intensively manage 12 facilities by adding facilities, vocational rehabilitation facilities for the disabled, homeless housing facilities, facilities for homeless use and rehabilitation hospitals.
If included in a high-risk facility, visits to residents are limited and non-contact, and diagnostic testing is mandatory for new people at each facility. Workers and patients need to monitor twice a day and enter this into the Corona Monitoring System of Gyeonggi Province. Workers must comply with quarantine rules equivalent to self-isolation after hours.
An educational support group is also formed to strengthen infectious disease education for workers. The province announced that a specialized training group consisting of the Seongnam City Medical Center and the Gyeonggi Medical Center of Suwon, Anseong, Icheon, Uijeongbu, Paju and Pocheon Hospitals in each of the seven districts will directly educate the groups. quarantine support in each city and county.
A preventive, asymptomatic, preventive and total examination is also carried out for the workers. From 2 to 13, a total of 14,612 workers from nursing care rehabilitation hospitals, long-term resident wellness centers and temporary resident wellness centers will be subject to a full inspection (PCR cluster test).
Director Lim said: “The main routes for virus invasion into vulnerable facilities are workers and visitors.” “People who have a job in direct contact with the patient’s body are more likely to transmit the virus to high-risk groups, so they need special attention.” I ask.
Meanwhile, there are 339 nursing hospitals in Gyeonggi-do. It represents 21.4% of the 1,584 nursing hospitals in the country. There are 3,886 vulnerable facilities, such as wellness facilities for the elderly and psychiatric care centers, 26% of the 15,097 nationally. The number of residents is 65,932, which is 27% of the country.
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