“Four caregivers are scared… .”
In October, 53 corona19 confirmed patients, including staff and patients, who occurred in a nursing hospital in Buk-gu, Busan, are being transported to an quarantine hospital using 119 ambulances. The hospital is restricted from access due to the same group quarantine measures. Not relevant to this article. Reporter Song Bong-geun
A cohort (same group) quarantine began on the 16th at a nursing hospital in Guro-gu, Seoul. One day ago, one patient was tested positive for a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), and infected people came out one after another. All of the patients hospitalized here are elderly people with limited mobility and must seek help from caregivers.
According to Guro-gu on the 28th, four nursing care workers who took care of patients at this hospital returned home. Even though the nursing hospital is in cohort quarantine, he requested self-isolation because he said, “I am afraid of getting corona infection.” A Guro-gu official said, “It is a situation where no one can point a finger.” Patients are in desperate need of nursing care, but according to the judgment of the epidemiological investigator, whether it is possible to isolate a cohort or self-isolate, the nursing hospital explained. An official in Guro-gu said, “We took self-isolation measures because the caregivers said they couldn’t cohort.”
According to the city of Seoul, the number of confirmed cases in the hospital by 0 o’clock on that day reached 170. The confirmed cases added on the 27th were 7 patients, 2 nursing care workers and 2 nurses. It is difficult to take action even if the number of confirmed cases increases in the hospital as it is quarantined. The city of Seoul judges that the infection has spread from the first confirmed person to patients and caregivers. Although tests are being performed periodically, the confirmed case continues for the second week after the infection occurred.
Citizens are waiting to be tested at the Corona 19 Temporary Screening Center in front of Seoul Station in Yongsan-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 22nd, when 869 new confirmed cases of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) were counted one day. Reporter Kim Sang-sun
50 patients waiting to be transferred to the hospital
The problem is the patients isolated here. As of 9 pm on the 27th, 99 of the patients in this hospital were transferred to other hospitals, but about 50 patients are still waiting for transfer to the hospital. The situation is likely to get worse, but finding a hospital to move to is picking the stars in the sky. An official from Guro-gu said, “From the beginning of the infection, we have sought cooperation from hospitals nationwide to transfer patients, but there are still confirmed patients.” The official said, “There are many cases where intact patients are not received just because there is a confirmed person in this nursing hospital, and there are many cases where they decide to receive it and then cancel it.”
When nursing care workers who would take care of patients wanted to quarantine their homes because of’concern about infection’, and lack of workforce, Guro-gu set out to find a nurse on its own. The Guro-gu Office directly hired 10 nursing assistants. An official from Guro-gu said, “The answer is to designate a nursing hospital in charge of infection so that when a confirmed person comes out, it can be treated quickly.”
Regarding this, Park Yoo-mi, head of the Citizens Health Bureau of Seoul, said, “If a confirmed person occurs (at a nursing hospital), they are not in the form of waiting at home, but receive treatment from the medical staff.” I am doing it.” He added, “When there is a confirmed person in a nursing hospital, a care service must be included to manage it, but it requires more manpower than a hospital dedicated to general infectious diseases.”
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