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government decided to promote the current disease management headquarters to an independent disease management agency. However, there was a controversy that there was a problem with the reorganization plan. As a result of the SBS coverage, it was confirmed that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention had a significant difference from the desired direction.

Cho Dong-chan is a medical journalist.

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Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which was operated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, will be promoted to an independent agency.

This is to ensure that professional competence is quickly demonstrated in the crisis of infectious diseases.

However, the amendment suggests that the number of seats will now be reduced from 907 to 746, and the budget will be reduced from 81.7 billion to 669 billion won.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has been in charge of non-infectious diseases such as infectious diseases, hypertension, and diabetes, but non-infectious diseases are transferred to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

An insider at the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is in direct conflict with the plan for self-development.

Looking at the internal data analyzing the structure of disease management organizations in the world's advanced health countries, none of the seven countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, have separated the non-infectious diseases sector.

[Kim Yun/Professor of Medical Management, Seoul National University Medical School: As you can see from the situation in Corona 19, the high-risk group of Corona 19 is a chronic patient, so chronic disease management and infectious disease management cannot be mechanically separated.]

Manpower management regulations are also a problem.
Emergency management centers and infectious disease management centers, which are the core organizations of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, may be

deprived of expertise by officials from non-professional officials. It is not a way to work as an

assistant , but it is necessary to create a path from the epidemiological investigator to become the chief of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. As this rises, it is a sign of controversy.

(Video coverage: Dong Hyuk Lee, Video editing: Moo Hwan Jo, VJ: Soyoung Shin)  

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