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The government has decided to see a respiratory patient who has come to the hospital to prevent infection in Corona19 Hospital. He also said he would allow temporary phone consultations and some sort of telemedicine so that patients with mild colds can get prescriptions without going to the hospital.

I'm Choi Jae-young.

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The key to the government's countermeasures is to prevent in-hospital infections such as Qingdao Daenam Hospital nurse infection.

To this end, we decided to designate a relief hospital.

In the Reassuring Hospital, we plan to separate the respiratory disease patients from the general population and the treatment space.

[Yun, Tae-Ho / President, Central Accident and Welfare Headquarters: Director of Outbreak Prevention: Only Respiratory Patients Can ... .]

This was done in MERS in 2015, and 230 hospitals were designated as relief hospitals.

The government also plans to temporarily allow some kind of 'remote medical', which allows for consultation and prescriptions over the phone.

[Park, Aung-Hoo / Central Accident and Remediation Headquarters: If a patient with mild cold symptoms can be secured at the doctor's discretion, they can receive counseling and prescription without visiting the local clinic. .]

It is not yet determined at which hospital or when such telephone counseling and prescriptions will be available, the government will be in charge of the hospital's judgment rather than appointing the hospital.

If this action is taken, prescriptions will be sent to patients via SNS or fax, and hospital fees will be reviewed.

However, the Korean Medical Association said, "We did not discuss with the government in advance," he said. "Telephone consultations and prescriptions are at risk of missing appropriate treatment opportunities."

(Video Editing: So Young Lee, CG: Choi Jin Hoe, Song Kyung Hye, Oh Yu Rim)