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problem with <anchor> is that not all hospitals have enough medical staff and equipment. Public hospitals and private hospitals are well connected to make up for the shortcomings of each other so that more lives can be saved.

Reporter Nam Joo-hyun will deliver the final sequence of public medical field inspection.

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Last month, an eight-year-old boy who went to Goseong, Gangwon-do, hurt his instep.

I went to a nearby public hospital, but I couldn't even enter the emergency room.

[Injured child father: When I heard that it was an open fracture, it seemed that the treatment was difficult. You have to go to a larger hospital.]

The public hospital explained, "I didn't have a pediatric orthopedic specialist at the time, so I sent it to another hospital." After going through another general hospital, the child barely went to a university hospital in Seoul six hours later. I was treated.

Even with emergency rooms, it is not easy to treat children or severe trauma in small hospitals.

The same is true in Corona19 situations.

Incheon Medical Center, a public hospital, was in poor condition during corona19 treatment, and was forced to send two patients who needed artificial cardiopulmonary therapy, that is, Ekmo treatment, to a nearby university hospital.

[Eom Joong-Sik/Director of Planning and Coordination Office, Gil Hospital, Gachon University: There was a lack of medical staff who could actually apply and insert Ekmo equipment to patients. So, we received patients at our hospital....] Of

the forty public hospitals across the country, there are only more than 300 beds.

If it is difficult to create a public hospital with the size and manpower to treat seriously ill patients right now, you need to connect with a university hospital or large private hospital equipped with specialized medical staff and equipment so that patients can be treated on time.

This is a way to improve the public interest of public hospitals and co-operation with private hospitals, which occupy 90% of hospital beds in the country.

(Video coverage: Taehoon Kim, Video editing: Seontak Kim)