“Why can’t I receive patients in nursing hospitals?”

On the 28th, an e-mail addressed to the JoongAng Ilbo reporter stating that he was “a doctor treating corona patients in a public hospital.” It was a letter from a nursing hospital in Guro-gu, Seoul, when a bunch of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection (Corona 19) came out, and four nursing care workers left for fear of infection. On this day, the JoongAng Ilbo reported ‘4 nursing care workers left… Through an article titled “170 confirmed nursing hospital tragedy,” he reported the reality of nursing hospital patients and staff in the situation of Corona 19.

On the 30th, at a nursing hospital in Guro-gu, Seoul, hospital officials wearing Level D protective clothing are being tested for a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). A hospital official said, “Since a large number of corona 19 confirmed cases occurred in this hospital, patients and hospital workers are regularly undergoing corona 19 tests every two days.” yunhap news

At the nursing hospital in Guro-gu, where four nursing care workers left their homes after a group infection in the hospital, 14 confirmed patients were added on the 29th. A total of 190 corona19 patients came out of this hospital alone. The hospital has entered cohort (same group) quarantine since the 15th after the outbreak of the confirmed case. As of 30 days, 38 confirmed patients are waiting to be transferred to the hospital, and 115 uninfected patients are still in the hospital. Seven patients in this nursing hospital died of Corona 19.

As the situation quickly returned, Seoul City’s Citizen Health Bureau Director Park Yoomi said, “We are working nationwide to ensure that confirmed patients in nursing hospitals go down to Gyeonggi-do in the vicinity and Jeolla-do in the distance, and when the beds are empty.”

After reading this article, the doctor sent a letter to the effect of “I want to inform you of a real problem.” The letter said, “It is true that patients who are cohort quarantined in nursing hospitals are in a situation where (all of them) are pushed to the rear and try not to receive as much as possible in any public hospital.” However, he pointed out that “the biggest obstacle to the transfer of a confirmed patient to the hospital after being in a nursing hospital is’manpower’,” he said. “Corona inpatient treatment requires at least 2 to 4 times more personnel than conventional inpatient treatment. It takes time, and even the number of hours per person can work is limited.”

He said, “The method that a hospital with a lack of manpower can take is to hospitalize patients who have mild symptoms, are not old, and can live alone on their own,” he said. “The city Boramae Hospital that accepts a little bit of sick patients in Seoul And Seoul Medical Center, but there are also very limited hospital beds due to the lack of manpower.” In addition, he pointed out that “the Central Accident Control Center (Jungsubon) is actively asking for these patients, but none of the hospitals readily accept them.”

The number of new coronavirus infections (Corona 19) increased by 1050, and medical staff are examining students at the Corona 19 Temporary Screening Clinic in a middle school in Daejeon on the afternoon of the 30th, when a super emergency was caught. [프리랜서 김성태]

He explained that the second problem was that most of the patients in nursing hospitals are bedridden patients, and they have a characteristic that’someone needs to take care of them 24 hours’. It means that patients in nursing hospitals who need caregivers can only go to’severe beds’, making it even more difficult. He said, “Since the severe beds are very limited, general critically ill patients endure for as long as a week at the dedicated hospital, and then they are barely all of them,” he said. .

He also pointed to the situation of patients who were forced to be admitted to nursing hospitals in the first place. “After completing the corona treatment and discharged from the hospital, we are instructing you to rest according to self-isolation at home for about two weeks, but there will be no nursing hospital to accept sick patients who were released from quarantine after having coronavirus.” He regretted that “after maximum treatment, we are given consent to be taken home and quarantined, but there are too many guardians who refuse to be discharged from the hospital.”

He also said, “In the end, the solution is to create a hospital dedicated to nursing care, as the corona quickly subsides, so there are many vacant, or as the government claims, it will not be as easy as it sounds.” , It is a pity that there was no plan.”

In addition, he ended the letter saying, “At the present site, everyone, including public hospital workers, heavy water supplies, and the fire department, are working all night to deal with the situation,” he said. “It is not just time to blame, but to seek solutions.”

Reporter Kim Hyun-ye [email protected]