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Today (18th) I will arrange with Cho Dong-chan, medical reporter.



Q. What are the pros and cons of securing an intensive care unit at a university hospital?



[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): The Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine released a statement today. As a result of the government's executive order, 241 beds for critically ill patients were secured at 9 high-level general hospitals, but 97 beds for critically ill patients were reduced. In this way, there are still many patients waiting for several months for critically ill surgery such as stroke or cancer, and the delay is inevitable. Last year, our country has ever but non Corona Corona deaths fatalities are more common than in other countries.]



Q. sustained severe measures above are available?



[Cho Dong-chan/medical reporter (specialist): Currently, we are only looking at professional medical staff such as patients with severe cases of corona, infectious diseases or respiratory internal medicine specialists and nurses. Since this has been going on for over a year and a half, they are also very tired. As if a cup overflows with just a little bit of water in a cup full of water, contrary to expectations, the medical world is faltering even with 500 critically ill patients now. The idea that mild or less serious semi-critical patients should be shared with other medical teams such as gastroenterology, cardiology, and neurology is gaining persuasiveness. The lesson that a pandemic cannot be overcome with a few heroes, it seems that the medical community should put it into practice.]



Q. How to reduce the number of seriously ill patients?



[Cho Dong-chan/Medical Reporter (specialist): Most of the severe cases now are people who have been quiet in the nursing hospital facilities.

The reason is not because of the lack of social distancing, but because of the reduced effectiveness of vaccination.

Therefore, we need to speed up the additional vaccinations for the elderly over 65 and those with weakened immunity.]  



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