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One of the areas with many non-severe diseases is obstetrics and gynecology.

Even with the same disease, in some cases, it can be difficult surgery, but the problem is that even such patients are classified as non-severe and cannot be treated in time.



This is reporter Nam Joo-hyun.



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patient in her twenties who had severe bleeding due to fibroids over 9cm is undergoing surgery at a university hospital.



After more than 5 hours of surgery, 16 fibroids were safely removed.



[Yang Hye-jeong/Hysteromyoma Surgery Patient: I have a two-year-old plan, but I want to save the uterus as much as possible because I talk like this,'It could be infertility.' (I came to a university hospital.)]



But in the gynecology

department,

only cancer patients are classified as severe. According to government standards, this patient is not severely ill.



In the case of pregnant women, all other high-risk deliveries, except for three cases, such as a high-risk cesarean section, are classified as'non-severe'.



[Hyunsun Ko/Professor, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Over 90% of mothers are high-risk mothers, but in the current classification system, as much as 5% (recognized.)]



Large hospitals need to hospitalize a large number of severely ill patients to get better government evaluation and get more incentive pay Can be received.



A university hospital postponed surgery for non-severe patients other than cancer to next year ahead of government evaluation at the end of this year.



Neighborhood clinics and hospitals are also very burdened if high-risk intractable patients are classified as non-severe.



[Miran Kim/Chairman of the Medical Delivery System TFT of the Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology: It is a good idea to reclassify high-risk mothers, recurrence patients, and intractable patients as severe, so that seriously ill patients can be treated at a high-level general hospital.] The



actual severity of each patient is reflected. It is pointed out that it is necessary to change the classification criteria so that it can be done and to subtract the severity of pregnant women from the hospital evaluation.



(Video coverage: Yang Hyun-cheol, video editing: Lee Seung-yeol) 



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