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increase in the number of deaths means that the medical response system is reaching its limit. Hospital beds in the metropolitan area are already empty, and the beds in non-metropolitan areas are almost full. There is no choice but to increase the number of beds, and it is difficult for hospitals to increase the number of beds right away.



Reporter Nam Jung-min on the sidewalk.



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hospital dedicated to corona in Gangwon-do, the prepared intensive care beds are all full, and it is no longer possible to receive patients.



[Gangwon-do Hospital: There are many patients from other regions… Since everyone is full, it is not easy to power them all.]



Not only here but also all 36 intensive care beds in Gangwon-do are full.



Although it plans to secure 6 additional beds by next week, it is not keeping pace with the rate of critically ill patients.



[Gangwon-do Health Authority: (Confirmed) Recently, from 100 to 110 people have come out, and among those who break through infection in their 60s, there are serious patients… .] As



patients from the metropolitan area flocked to the neighboring non-metropolitan areas, the utilization rate of most beds in the Chungcheong area exceeded 90%, and Busan and Gwangju also reached 70%.



Even in non-metropolitan areas, it has become difficult to get hospital beds.



[Busan Hospital: I was assigned to a critically ill patient if I had to meet the real seriousness criteria. In the old days, when a patient's condition deteriorated a little, he was transferred immediately... .]



The government plans to secure beds so that it can handle 10,000 confirmed cases a day, but there are currently more than 1,000 patients waiting because they have not been assigned a bed.



[Kim Bu-gyeom/Prime Minister: Please be more active in securing new beds by additionally discovering and supporting medium-sized hospitals with the capacity to treat critically ill patients.] The



utilization rate of beds for semi-critical patients who are likely to improve or worsen from severe to severe With the number approaching 70%, the government's plan to use semi-critically ill beds for critically ill patients is expected to be inevitably disrupted.