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As the number of confirmed corona19 rises rapidly, waiting deaths due to a shortage of beds has become a reality, raising concerns about the collapse of the medical system.
This is because there are cases in Seoul and Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, where a confirmed patient who has not been assigned a bed in time cannot receive treatment and dies outside the hospital.
According to health officials on the 18th, a patient in her 80s who was confirmed on the 12th at Bucheon Nursing Hospital in Gyeonggi-do died on the 16th. The patient was on hold because she had not been assigned a bed. for four days.
Bucheon Mayor Jang Deok-cheon opined on Facebook that the medical system was not working properly after a confirmed patient occurred in a nursing hospital.
In this nursing hospital, two 70-year-old men also died from deteriorating health while in quarantine in a cohort without being assigned a bed from 13 to 14.
A Bucheon city official said: “There were three deaths before being transferred to the hospital and one more died after being transferred to the hospital.”
In Seoul, a man in his 60s who was not assigned a bed died on the 15th.
After the diagnosis was confirmed, he waited at his home in Dongdaemun-gu for four days, but eventually died outside the hospital after receiving treatment.
In Gyeonggi-do, the number of patients waiting for hospitals that have not been assigned beds reaches 251, and most of them are seriously ill, so deaths are expected to continue to rise.
There are only 4 beds in the metropolitan area to treat seriously ill patients: 1 in Seoul, 2 in Gyeonggi and 1 in Incheon. It is not enough to handle the rapidly increasing number of patients.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government issued a press release regarding the fact that bed allocations were not made on time, saying: “Seoul City, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon City are working together on patient triage. and the allocation of beds. We had a hard time assigning this bed. “
Gyeonggi province, where the situation is most dire, plans to secure an additional 179 treatment beds in consultation with public and private hospitals this month. The number of life treatment centers will also be increased to 10 (with a capacity of 4402 people).
Pyeongtaek Bharae Hospital, a private hospital, decided to voluntarily provide hospital beds for the first time in the country.
Bucheon = Reporter Jeong Chang-gyo [email protected]
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