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An official from the quarantine authorities disinfects an elevator in a building of a nursing hospital in Gyeyang-gu, Incheon on the 4th. The nursing hospital was quarantined in a cohort (same group) due to the outbreak of a new infection by coronavirus (Corona 19). News 1
There is testimony from the scene that elderly and seriously ill patients at the facility are being pushed down on bed allocation, while the death toll from the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) continues in nursing facilities such as Hyoplus Nursing Hospital in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province. Controversy seems likely as the government admitted that infection control and bed support were insufficient.
An official from the metropolitan quarantine authorities who requested anonymity on the 4th said: “If there are many patients in nursing hospitals and other confirmed patients in a limited number of beds, there is no choice but to prioritize the allocation of beds.” “The cohort (same group).) We do not prioritize the allocation of beds to elderly patients in a nursing hospital in isolation.”
In fact, in the case of Hyoplus Nursing Hospital in Bucheon, patients who tested positive had to wait up to 10 days for bed assignment. On the 24th of last month, 636 of the 740 beds in the Gyeonggi area were used, recording an operation rate of 85.9%. In particular, the allocation of beds ended on the 31st of last month, 20 days after the first confirmed person left. Meanwhile, 47 people died, of whom 27 died without being assigned a bed.
Regarding the fact that no more than 70 beds were assigned to them despite the fact that more than 70 beds were empty at the time, the official said: “A maximum of 10 patients per day came from the Life Treatment Center per hospital.” “There is no room for beds to treat seriously ill patients. There wasn’t. “An official from Gyeonggi Province also said:” The hospital bed utilization rate figure of ‘85% ‘appears to be somewhat marginal, “he said.” However, considering the fact that residents of life treatment centers and emergency patients come frequently, it should be considered to be 100% operational. “Patients fill frequently and the time needed for disinfection and hospitalization procedures should be considered after discharge of existing hospitalized patients.
The number of beds is a problem, but the biggest problem is the fatigue of the medical personnel in the field who operate the beds. An official at the scene said: “The fatigue of the medical staff is a limited situation” and said: “If the current spreads a little more, there will be a major interruption in the operation of the hospital bed.”
An official at a public health center in the northern part of Gyeonggi said: “The fatigue of the medical staff is reaching its limit. The process of hospitalization, quarantine and treatment of confirmed patients appears to be working normally, but if the situation continues , the interruption in the functioning of the bed is inevitable soon “. The government and local governments are also aware of this concern and have already changed the number of beds from the retention standard to the availability standard, but the fatigue from the field is still mounting due to a lack of manpower.
According to Gyeonggi-do, 681 of the 828 beds dedicated to infectious diseases in the Gyeonggi area at 0 o’clock that day. The utilization rate is 82.2%. Group infection occurred at Bucheon Hyoplus Nursing Hospital, Goyang-si Smile Morning Nursing Hospital, and Ansan-si Light Nursing Hospital, which is lower than December 24 last year (85.9% rate of operation), when 104 people were waiting for the allocation of beds, but it is not a reliable situation. . Of the 87 treatment beds for critically ill patients, 68 (78.1%) are in use.
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