On the fourth day, the number of seriously ill patients increased with 1,000 confirmed cases … Concerned by the ‘setback of beds’ of 13 beds in the metropolitan area

Entry 2020.12.19 13:54

With the number of new confirmed corona 19 patients in Korea registering 1,000 units for four consecutive days, there is growing concern about the “bedroom crisis”. As the number of new confirmed cases continues to rise, the number of patients with severe gastric disorders continues to rise, leading to areas without beds to treat critically ill patients.

According to the Central Accident Control Center on the 19th, the day before, only 48 and 8.4% of the 573 seriously ill patients can be admitted immediately.

The number of beds increased by 3 compared to the previous day (45), but considering the increase in confirmed cases, it is difficult to say that there is enough space for the bed.

To date, there are 13 beds available, including 8 in Seoul, 4 in Gyeonggi and 1 in Incheon. It was nine more than the day before, but it is only one digit per region.

In the case of the non-metropolitan area, it is difficult to cope with the rapidly increasing number of patients. In Chungbuk, where 103 corona-confirmed patients were found19 at 0 o’clock today, there is no immediate bed to treat critically ill patients. Daejeon, Jeonbuk and Jeonnam also suffer from a shortage of hospital beds.

In this situation, patients with severe gastric disorders are breaking records every day. After recording 101 on day 2, it increased to 205 on day 15. Since then, it has increased from 226 people → 242 people → 246 people → 275 people.

In particular, there have been cases of death while awaiting inpatient treatment at home without receiving adequate treatment in time. According to the data of admissions and deaths in the quarantine hospital of the Crown 19 pending all the data distributed the previous day by the Central Defense Response Headquarters, the patients who died while waiting to be admitted to the quarantine beds at home at 0 o’clock the day before or waiting for all the quarantine beds in a nursing hospital. It is a total of 8 people.

Six of the eight deceased patients died this month. The other two died during the first pandemic in Daegu and Gyeongbuk in February and March this year. However, about 4 hours after the distribution of the data, the quarantine authorities said that “the standard of mortality in the air is the case of death in a home or in the emergency room before hospitalization.” Only one fatality in Seoul is explained to be “dead while waiting for a bed” after the third outbreak.