[전국]One successive death of patients while waiting for bed… difficult to secure bed

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As the number of corona19 confirmed surges, patients who died waiting for treatment bed assignments in the metropolitan area are following.

The number of cases of moving confirmed patients to other cities and provinces is increasing, but securing beds is only slow.

Reporter Kim Hak-moo.

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On the 16th, a male confirmed patient in his 80s died in a nursing hospital in Bucheon during group quarantine.

After being confirmed on the 12th, he died while waiting for a bed assignment for four days.

Gyeonggi-do and Bucheon-si reported that they continued to request hospital beds after the diagnosis, but were not assigned, and that the condition worsened and died.

Prior to this, two men in their 70s who were confirmed on the 11th also died while waiting in bed on the 13th and 14th, respectively.

Since there are no hospital beds, the number of cases being transferred to other areas is increasing.

There were 13 patients who moved from Gyeonggi-do to Mokpo City Medical Center in Jeonnam, all of them mildly.

After sending six people on the 11th, it was the second time that Jeonnam-do was aware of the shortage of beds in Gyeonggi Province and proposed it first.

Gyeonggi Province is struggling to operate a home care system, but it is not enough to secure beds.

[임승관 / 경기도 코로나19 긴급대응단장 : 실질적으로 확진자들 대기자들에게 필요한 것은 병상과 의료진을 통한 치료 서비스입니다. 그렇지만 도내 병상확보에 아직까지 큰 어려움이 있는 것 또한 명백한 사실입니다.]

The utilization rate of COVID-19 treatment beds in Gyeonggi Province has reached 90%, and the beds for severely ill patients are also saturated.

There are over 250 people waiting for beds in Gyeonggi-do alone, and most of them are severely ill, so if additional beds are not quickly secured, the damage will increase.

YTN Kim Hak-moo[[email protected]]is.

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