Seoul City, Condolences For ‘Dead Man Waiting At Home’ … Bed Allocation System Verification

On the 17th, citizens await an exam at a temporary screening clinic in Songpa-gu Olympic Park, Seoul. 2020.12.17 / News1 © News1 Reporter Seongcheol Lee

The city of Seoul announced on the 17th that it expressed its deepest condolences for the citizens who died while waiting at home after being diagnosed with a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) on the 12th and feeling great responsibility.

According to the ‘Seoul Metropolitan Area Joint Bed Utilization Plan’ jointly administered by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Seoul City, Gyeonggi Province, and Incheon City since August 21, the Metropolitan Government from Seoul said: “We have been doing patient classification and bed allocation,” he said. “Since the beginning of December, due to the overload of the administrative and medical system due to the explosion of confirmed cases, there was a difficulty in allocating beds in the ‘Corona Metropolitan Field Response Team 19′”.

The 122 deceased was confirmed for Corona 19 on the 12th, but died on the 15th, three days after waiting for a bed assignment. The deceased had underlying diseases such as diabetes, and was confirmed to be a confirmed person related to Pagoda Town in Jongno-gu.

The number of specialized treatment beds for seriously ill patients in Seoul has dropped to 5 on the 13th, 2 on the 14th and 1 on the 15th.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government said: “I feel a great responsibility for the unfortunate that should not happen,” and said: “We will check and strengthen the public medical system, such as the bed allocation system, in consultation with the Ministry of Health and Welfare to prevent this from happening again. ”

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