Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chung Eun-kyung said at the opening ceremony of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held at the Health and Medical Administration Town's Welfare Center in Osong, Chungbuk on the 14th, "I feel a heavy sense of duty to be the first director of the Disease Control Agency. Overcoming Corona 19 will be a top priority."
Commissioner Chung said, "The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opened the call in a severe situation in which the Corona 19 crisis is in progress. This is a call for the people to overcome the Corona 19 crisis early and prepare professionally and more systematically for new infectious diseases that will continue to occur in the future. It is a result of strict will and government will.”
"Corona 19 is expected to be infectious for a long time due to its high infectious power and spreading power in the asymptomatic period, because all citizens are not immune," Chung said. "Until the introduction of solutions such as vaccines, our medical, quarantine, and social systems are under control. "We are pursuing long-term epidemic containment strategies that control the scale and rate of outbreaks to the extent possible."
He said to the staff, "We are still in the middle of a stormy sea. As a captain and another sailor of a new ship called the Disease Control Agency, I will be a companion to finish this voyage together with all of you."
Minister of Health and Welfare Park Neung-hoo said in a congratulatory remark, "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has done its best in the situation of the corona 19 infectious disease crisis, and has been reborn today in recognition of its efforts." "Let's have a national quarantine response system."
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was promoted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency under the Ministry of Health and Welfare, to an independent agency, and officially launched on the 12th with the vision of'healthy people, safe society'.
The first commissioner was the head of the Central Defense Response Headquarters (Daebon Bang), who was the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
With the promotion of Qing, the organization was reorganized into 5 bureaus, 3 offices, and 41 divisions, including the Commissioner and Deputy Director, and the number of human resources increased to 1,476, an increase of 569 from 907 in the existing Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Affiliated agencies include the National Institute of Health, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Disease Response Center, National Tuberculosis Hospital, and National Quarantine Service.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to focus on preventing the spread of Corona 19 as a top priority, such as expanding epidemiological investigators in the central and local governments and strengthening education and training.
By establishing the National Infectious Disease Research Institute as an affiliated agency, we plan to secure domestic treatments (blood system) by this year, and establish a research and development system for vaccine development support and overall infectious diseases, with the goal of developing a domestic vaccine by next year.
In addition, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will strengthen the prevention and management of not only infectious diseases, but also various chronic diseases, daily health problems such as climate change, and blind spot diseases such as rare diseases.
To this end, the'Health Hazard Response Center' was established to promote a project to prevent health hazards in daily life such as heat waves, cold waves, and fine dust.
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