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It has been reported that one minute and one second emergency patient missed the golden time of treatment while waiting for a private ambulance from far away. Even though there was a hospital ambulance in front of me, I had to spend 40 minutes without driving. This is not a problem at one hospital.

Reporter Lee Se-young

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Her father visited the emergency department of Daejeon Public Hospital last month due to acute myocardial infarction.

I was in a hurry to move to a large university hospital, but it was only 40 minutes after I got on the ambulance.

There was an ambulance in the hospital, but I had to wait for the private ambulance to come and claim to have had aftereffects.

[Huh Gil-ju / Patient Guardian: It's a fast situation, but it's late. As a result, you may have a little bit of sequelae right now. I feel upset because I have difficulty breathing once or twice a day.]

The doctor says this is not once or twice.

[The doctor in the hospital: I just spend half an hour in our hospital. (Patient) I went in a taxi with the sap. Because it's faster.]

It is easy to miss treatment golden time.

[The doctor in that hospital: (Is there no ambulance in the hospital?) I don't drive.

The hospital ambulance only transported emergency patients once this year.

Ambulances with up to 100 million won of government subsidies are left standing, and millions of won per month are used for private ambulances that are 6 or 7 kilometers away.

[Emergency Guardian: (It usually takes so long?) (Emergency) When there are no patients, ambulances can't (wait).]

Another local emergency medical institution in Gyeonggi-do.

The hospital also purchased an ambulance in 2017, which is left on one side next to the emergency room.

Both hospitals are because of money.

[Hospital official: (private company commissioned for one year) cost is cheaper than one person labor cost.]

Under the current law, when an ambulance is commissioned, it must be able to operate immediately, but it is often not immediately because there is no detailed guidance.

[Attorney of Cho Seok-ju / Korea Emergency Medical Association (Professor of Pusan ​​Medical School): I am not obsessed with 'immediate', but I need a rule to be able to get an ambulance within a few percent or minutes, for example.

In the last three years, more than 2,300 people have lost their lives on the way to the emergency room due to severe trauma and acute myocardial infarction.

(Video Editing: Lee Seung Jin, VJ: Roh Jae Min)