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With the recent spread of the coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the number of seriously ill patients is increasing and the number of beds is rapidly decreasing. The government, which became urgent, went to the main hospitals in Seoul to ask for a bed, and the hospitals decided to respond.
Emergency breakfast with 5 major Seoul hospitals on the morning of the 2nd.
Hospitals respond to “cooperation,” but it is difficult to ensure a
With the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) spreading across the country, medical staff are examining citizens visited at the Corona 19 Detection Clinic at a public health facility in Chungbuk on the afternoon of the 2nd. Reporter Kim Seong -tae
The Ministry of Health and Welfare held an emergency meeting with the heads of the planning and coordination departments of five university hospitals, including Seoul Asan, Samsung Seoul, Seoul National University, Severance, and Korea Anam University, somewhere in Seoul on the morning of the 2nd. The government rushed to take SOS when the number of hospital beds in Seoul that could be hospitalized was reduced to six from 59 treatment beds dedicated to seriously ill patients. A senior official from the Central Accident Control Center said: “If it had been a long time, I would have asked if he would have come from Sejong since dawn to find me.” A large hospital took the initiative and asked to cooperate to get a bed. ”
Seoul National University Hospital operates 12 specialized treatment beds for seriously ill patients. Samsung’s Seoul Hospital recently installed two additional beds and is preparing to secure four more. Seoul Asan Hospital (currently 3), Severance Hospital (5) and Korea University Anam Hospital (4) are also undergoing internal review.
However, due to the nature of advanced general hospitals, it is problematic to leave the bed empty for patients who do not know when to turn in a situation where there are overwhelmed patients with high severity in addition to crown patients. To be used as a dedicated bed for seriously ill patients, the area must be 1.5 times larger than that of a general bed and must be a single room. Additional space (all rooms) is also required to maintain negative pressure (pressure below atmospheric pressure) and space to install medical equipment. Equipment such as a ventilator or ekmo (extracorporeal membrane oxygen supply) is required, and a physician and trained nurse are attached.
Medical staff are treating seriously ill patients in the negative pressure intensive care unit at Kyungpook National University Hospital. Photo courtesy of Daegu Metropolitan City
A Heavy Soo-Bon official said: “Although labor is also labor, we know that there can be difficulties treating other critically ill patients while receiving critical corona patients. There is, ”he said. This official said: “Because you need space to wear protective clothing to see corona patients, there are not many places where you can physically do it.”
An official at a large hospital said: “Because the intensive care unit is already full of patients, it is not easy to move the existing patient to another location.” “I can’t keep working in protective clothing, so it requires a workforce per shift, but this is difficult. That is why it is difficult to present it immediately when the government asks for help ”.
Another senior hospital official also said: “If you want to increase one bed, you must subtract four existing intensive care units.” “Each time that increase, two doctors and 10 nurses per bed will follow. It is not easy to increase the number of beds ”.
On the morning of day 1, medical personnel are receiving medical care from the hospital room in the negative pressure isolation ward of the Central Hospital for Infectious Diseases of the National Medical Center in Jung-gu, Seoul. Yunhap news
In the midst of this, the number of patients with severe and severe illness has recently increased and, as of 0 am on day 2, 101 patients exceeded 100. On the 25th of last month, a week ago, there were 81, and 20 more in a week. Typically, crown patients become seriously ill and seriously ill after 7 to 10 days. Authorities predict that the number of seriously ill patients may increase for some time due to the recent increase in the number of confirmed cases.
Joon-wook Kwon, chief of the second vice president of the Central Defense Response Headquarters, said in a briefing on the first day: “The number of seriously ill patients has recently increased due to the delay. Said.
Reporter Hwang Soo-yeon [email protected]
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