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Another problem is as important as whether to transfer the research function to the Ministry of Welfare. That's what separates infectious and chronic disease policies.

The medical journalist Cho Dong-chan will explain in detail why that is the problem and how it should be reviewed.

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On the 25th of February, the number of corona19 patients in Shincheonji, Daegu surged.

There are more than 700 patients in Daegu and Gyeongbuk, already over 88 times the size of the region's negative pressure beds, and there have been cases of people not receiving treatment and dying due to lack of hospitalization.

Health authorities have come up with measures to ensure that mild patients are treated in life centers such as training centers and hotels, and only severe patients are treated in negative pressure rooms.

An important criterion for sharing treatment in a negative pressure room with a living treatment center was whether there was a underlying condition, such as chronic disease such as hypertension, diabetes or cancer.

Myosu, a life treatment center that stopped the case of death while waiting for hospitalization, was able to communicate because he had grasped the actual condition of chronic patients.

In the report by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, none of the countries with specialized disease management organizations have separated infectious and chronic diseases.

Finland, which started out as an agency dedicated to infectious diseases, eventually included chronic diseases.

[Cheon Eun-mi/Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Lee Dae-mok-dong Hospital: All diseases occur in infectious diseases. Cancer patients also die from infectious diseases. I can't fall.]

The personnel system should also be improved so that professional manpower can be introduced.

It is necessary to refer to the United States and the United Kingdom, which are actively operating open personnel systems.

[Gimyun / Seoul National University Medical Management and faculty. Experts are working out again, you need to create such an open labor exchange structure went even people working here who work in universities or research institutes]

In this regard, the government key officials Infectious Diseases Institute escalate issues as well It is likely that the new deputy health minister will also review the origin, and the reorganization debate will expand further.

(Video coverage: Dong-hyeok Lee, Video editing: Seung-ryul Lee, VJ: So-young Shin)    

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