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As the spread of Corona 19 continues around the metropolitan area, voices say that we need to prepare for a pandemic. It is a story that we should not repeat the trials and errors we experienced in the early days of the Daegu-Gyeongbuk epidemic, including the bed of a severely ill patient.

Medical reporter Cho Dong-chan covered it.

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Yesterday morning in Gyeonggi-do, a patient in her 70s who was diagnosed with Corona 19 died without being hospitalized.

[Kwon Jun-wook/Director of National Institute of Health: (The deceased) had an underlying disease since yesterday (August 19), while waiting for hospitalization after confirmation... .]

There are six corona 19 critically ill beds at Asan Hospital in Seoul.

There are no corona 19 confirmed patients in this hospital, so it seems that all of them will be empty, but there are 4 severely ill patients who show symptoms before corona 19 is confirmed.

Only by checking the site can you know the exact number of beds.

Health authorities have announced that there are 60 severely ill beds in Seoul, but only 13 severely ill patients with Corona 19 have been directly identified by the Korean Academy of Critical Care in 14 university hospitals in Seoul, the National Medical Center, Seoul Medical Center, and 17 hospitals including Seoul National University Boramae Hospital. .

[Hong Seok-kyung / Corona Response Team, Korean Academy of Critical Care (Professor, Asan Hospital, Seoul): As you can see, we need specialized personnel, equipment related to critical patients, and special facilities. Those things aren't things that can be sorted out just by having a place within a day or two.]

Due to the nature of the high-risk group, which is markedly worsening after 10 days of corona diagnosis, it is expected that next share price will be high.

The society emphasized that it is urgent to establish an intensive care transfer system that designates regional hospitals from the central control tower after transparently identifying intensive care beds.

The time left for health authorities and the medical community to create effective critical care measures is at least a week.