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nursing official who was working at a public health center in Busan took his own life.

It is known that he suffered heavy labor for the second year due to the corona, amid a shortage of people to work in the field, and in particular, it was known that the mental pain was great because of his recent job.



Reporter Song Seong-joon covered it.



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is a message from A, a nursing official at the Dong-gu Health Center in Busan, to a colleague a day before making an extreme choice on the 23rd.



"My head stopped and my mind was so hard that my judgment was lost," he appealed.



It is reported that Mr. A has been under extreme stress on the first time he was in charge of managing a cohort quarantined hospital, although it was not his turn on the 20th.



On the one hand, I texted my co-workers and bosses to express mental pressure and blame myself for being sorry and not disappointing.




The night before my death, I found that I searched the portal site for words such as depression, headache, cerebral hemorrhage, and extreme choices in civil servants.




[Deathed nursing official husband: Since I took over the job, I haven't slept properly even at 1 am and 2 am. There was a lot of stress. I thought that much.] It was found that



Mr. A, who died, worked 363 hours overtime this year and more than 70 hours each month in addition to regular work.



In addition to the basic duties of public health centers, many nursing public officials are in charge of sample collection, epidemiological investigation of confirmed cases, and inspection of self-isolation persons.



The number of personnel has been cut in half by dispatching an infection response team to vaccination this year.



Due to this situation, honorary retirement, sick leave, and leave of employment are being followed by nursing officials who are in a limited situation.



[Nursing officials: People over 50 keep dropping out, those who are not due to babies go on parental leave, and if not, they go on a nursing leave.] The



government hired 700 additional people at national health centers within this month, and local government administrative personnel are also assigned to health centers He said he would.



(Video coverage: Kyungmoon Jung)



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