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As the number of recently confirmed coronavirus infections (Corona 19) in Korea increases by 1,000 every day, there is growing concern that the ‘bed riot’ is becoming a reality.
According to the Accident Recovery Headquarters on the 19th, only 48 of the 573 seriously ill patients can be admitted the day before, with only 8.4% of them.
Regarding the number of beds alone, the number of beds increased by 3 more than the previous day (45), but considering the increasing trend of confirmed cases, it is true that there is not enough space for the beds.
As of today, 13 beds are available for immediate treatment of seriously ill patients, including 8 in Seoul, 4 in Gyeonggi and 1 in Incheon.
While the government and local governments are focusing on expanding the number of beds, the number of beds that can be used has increased by nine from the previous day (four), but it is only in single digits per region, which is not It’s enough.
Beds in non-metropolitan hospitals are also insufficient to serve the rapidly increasing number of patients.
In particular, in Chungbuk, where 103 confirmed cases were recorded at 0 o’clock today, there is no immediate bed to treat critically ill patients. Daejeon, Jeonbuk, and Jeonnam also lack hospital beds.
Currently, there are only 12 treatment beds for ‘quasi-critical patients’ who are likely to get better or worse in severe stages.
In this situation, the number of patients with severe gastric disorders is the one that changes the most daily records without decreasing.
The number of patients with severe gastric disorders rose rapidly after crossing the 100 mark on day 2 (101) and skyrocketed to 205 on day 15. Since then, the situation is getting worse, from 226 people → 242 people → 246 people → 275 people.
Corona 19 Temporary Screening Clinic in front of Seongbuk-gu office▶ Click here to enlarge
Reflecting this, deaths that died during Corona 19 treatment or confirmed after death also register in double digits for five consecutive days (13 → 12 → 22 → 11 → 14) from the 15th to the present day.
Inside and outside the medical community, there are observations with concerns about whether the ‘bedroom disruption’ caused by this third pandemic has begun.
‘High risk’ patients, who are often chronically ill (basic illnesses) or are elderly, are particularly in need of prompt treatment, but there have been cases of death while awaiting inpatient treatment at home.
According to the data of admissions and deaths in the quarantine hospital of the ‘Crown 19 while waiting for everything’ distributed the previous day by the Central Defense Response Headquarters (Bangdaebon), people were waiting for quarantine beds at home or waiting all quarantine beds in a nursing hospital at 0 o’clock the day before. There were a total of 8 patients who died.
Excluding the two who died during the ‘first pandemic’ in Daegu and Gyeongbuk in February and March this year, six people were counted as dead this month.
In the case of a person who died while awaiting hospitalization at home, a confirmed patient in his 60s (the 122nd death in Seoul) living in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, tested positive on the 12th but died without being will assign you a bed until the 15th.
However, the quarantine authorities corrected that after 4 hours of data distribution, “the standard of mortality in the air is the case of death at home or in the emergency room before hospitalization”, and excludes 5 cases awaiting death in an isolated bed in a nursing hospital.
In fact, it is explained that only one fatality in the Seoul area falls to ‘dead waiting for a bed’ after the third outbreak.
Experts note that the government hospital bed and manpower preparations were insufficient in the context of fear of a winter pandemic.
Eun-mi Cheon, professor of respiratory medicine at Ewha Women’s University Mokdong Hospital, said, “Actually, it is difficult even if we try to increase the number of beds for critically ill patients in the medical field,” she said.
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