The variety of sufferers with whooping cough within the province elevated to 4,308.
Hospital sufferers are ready for extra sufferers
Not with the ability to get therapy as a consequence of lack of wards
Infectious respiratory ailments amongst youngsters, similar to pneumonia and whooping cough, are widespread all through the nation.
Because the variety of sufferers within the hospital will increase, some hospitals are making sufferers wait or switch sufferers because of the lack of pediatric beds. In accordance with the Korea Illness Management and Prevention Company on the twenty eighth, the variety of sufferers with Mycoplasma pneumoniae an infection nationwide was 5,790, a rise of two,335 in comparison with 3,255 final yr.
The variety of sufferers with whooping cough is 14,591 (4,308 in Gyeonggi-do). In comparison with final yr, when there have been 292 sufferers, the variety of sufferers with whooping cough this yr has elevated considerably.
Youngsters and youngsters make up over 60% of pneumonia and whooping cough sufferers. Within the case of pneumonia, 5,790 sufferers (77%) are between 0 and 12 years outdated, and for whooping cough, 9,170 sufferers (62%) are between 0 and 14 years outdated.
On this state of affairs, there are instances the place youngster sufferers with pneumonia and whooping cough within the province don’t obtain well timed therapy because of the lack of wards.
In actual fact, on the twenty third, Mr. A, who lives in Gwonseon-gu, Suwon Metropolis, needed to convey his 8-year-old youngster, who was identified with pneumonia, into the pediatric ward, however he was inform him he can be on it. wait as a consequence of lack of wards.
Mr. To be admitted to the overall ward till the subsequent day, and to the kids’s ward till the twenty fifth. Mr. A mentioned, “I perceive the inevitable state of affairs due to the shortage of hospital beds,” however he added, “I used to be pissed off that I could not be within the hospital shortly.”
This hospital admits youngsters to a ward the place inmates are comparatively free, however the variety of sufferers has elevated lately, making it unimaginable to launch youngsters. in.
A hospital official defined, “There are 30 beds for youngsters, however at present there are 40 pediatric pneumonia and whooping cough sufferers within the hospital.”
The state of affairs is comparable in hospitals that classify sufferers with respiratory infections individually. An official at B Hospital in Yongin mentioned, “20 out of 32 pediatric beds are used as respiratory illness beds, however there have been instances when new pediatric sufferers couldn’t be admitted as a result of the beds had been full .”
An official from the Korea Illness Management and Prevention Company mentioned, “Since numerous respiratory infectious ailments are widespread now, we ask you to comply with the foundations for stopping respiratory infectious ailments, together with well timed vaccination of the -face cough. “
/Reporter Chu Jeong-hyeon chu3636@incheonilbo.com
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