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Forty patients, who were confirmed yesterday (19th), did not go abroad, but they had a cough and fever symptoms and found a university hospital. The problem was that the university hospital did not send these patients directly to the screening clinic. Is.

Only after confirming pneumonia, the emergency department of the hospital was closed, but the laborer told him what was the problem.

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Hanyang University Hospital, Seoul, which was confirmed to be 78 and 40-year-old patients, was busy as usual.

The hospital asks the patient to write out the questionnaire first for the outpatient.

[I visited China or overseas within two weeks… Nothing at all?]

We're letting you in after you've confirmed that your body temperature is below 37.5˚C.

[I'll give you some heat.]

Patient 40 has gone through this screening process, but it is controversial.

After the CT scan and the diagnosis of pneumonia, the patient was classified as suspicious and transferred to the same hospital screening center.

The reason is that the patient has not been to a foreign country and is not so high when the temperature is measured during the screening process.

[Hanyang University Hospital officials: For now, he has no (foreign) travel capacity, and he has not been anywhere (high fever, cough, etc.). .]

Preemptive containment of so-called asymptomatic patients with no apparent symptoms was not possible. The hospital only managed outpatients by combining the disease management headquarters' response guidelines and its own guidelines.

Defense officials have exposed loopholes on several occasions, including not visiting China for non-Wuhan visits.

Experts say they need to hurry up to a so-called safe clinic where patients with suspected respiratory illnesses can be quarantined in separate buildings.

(Video coverage: Choi Ho-jun, Video editing: Park Athlete)