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Our coverage confirmed that there were more than 1,000 people in the metropolitan area alone who were not assigned a hospital bed after being diagnosed with COVID-19. An advisory member of the quarantine authorities expressed that it was an emergency situation with the allocation of beds. This is because the task of classifying the confirmed cases as mild or severe is being delayed.



Today's (18th) first news, Cho Dong-chan, an exclusive medical reporter.



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government advisory member said that as of 00:00 today, there are 1,027 confirmed cases in the metropolitan area alone who have not been assigned a bed.



The number of 423 people who were announced as waiting for hospitalization by the quarantine authorities were those who were not assigned a bed for more than a full day.



There are 1,027 people waiting to be allocated actual beds, which means much more, which means that for the time being, there will be over 1,000 people a day, Lee predicted.



It was confirmed that an official from the quarantine authorities told the local government that it was an 'emergency situation for allocating hospital beds'.



The main reason is the delay in classifying confirmed cases into mild, moderate, and severe cases.



Because general public health doctors, not specialists, take on the task of classifying patients, taking turns every two weeks, their professionalism is declining.



In recent years, as the number of patients with severe gastritis increases rapidly, the classification task takes more time.



[Soyeon Lim / Specialist at Gimpo Base Hospital: The number of patients who apply such renal replacement therapy that can replace such organ functions other than the lungs has also increased significantly.]



The problem is that critically ill patients are at risk if bed assignment is delayed.



This is due to delays in setting up and treating ventilators or 24-hour dialysis machines.



The quarantine authorities are considering asking the Ministry of National Defense for the support of medical specialists.



Even if a bed is assigned, hospitalization may be delayed because there are no transport vehicles such as 119 ambulances.



[Nurse at regional base hospital: Ambulances are not assigned well, so even if we receive it today (even if the room is full), you will be admitted at night or at dawn.] We



need to make sure that the existing beds can be used as efficiently as possible as much as expansion of beds.



(Video coverage: Jang Woon-seok, video editing: Park Ji-in, CG: Shin So-young)



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