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problem is that not only the number of confirmed cases, but also the number of patients with severe gastric disorders is increasing rapidly.

Yesterday (18th), there were 275 people, increasing close to 30 people a day, and while securing beds is also a problem, other patients are also affected.



Reporter Han So-hee covered it.



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At the time of the first pandemic, when 909 confirmed cases were released a day, only 16 patients with severe gastric disorders.



At the end of August, the second epidemic did not exceed 50.



However, in the next three months or so, the number of severely ill patients approached 300.



The problem is that the increase is too fast.



The number of patients from 97 in early December nearly tripled in about two weeks.



Recently, there are also young patients in their 20s and 30s.



[Kwak Jin/Central Defense Countermeasure Headquarters Patient Management Team Leader: (for patients in their 20s), it was confirmed on this Thursday that this corresponds to the degree to which high flow oxygen therapy is required...

.

(This morning) I confirmed that it was improving.] The



government is doing its best to arrange a bed, but it is still not enough.



To prepare a severe corona 19 bed, first, a separate movement line in the hospital must be secured, a negative pressure facility installed, various treatment equipment must be put in, and even medical staff must be deployed.



Damage to other patients may occur during this process.



In some cases, a teenage child underwent ordinary appendectomy in five days due to a late diagnosis and examination.



[Children's appendix mother: Am I dying now?

There's nothing I can do to talk about it.

I am more sorry that my mother is not a doctor.] With the



delay in securing beds, there are 500 confirmed patients waiting for more than a day because they were not assigned a bed in the metropolitan area until yesterday.



(Video coverage: Lim Dong-guk, video editing: Park Ji-in)