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result of the government tally, the number of severe cases increased by 47 in one day, now exceeding 770, and the number of people who died from Corona was 64. People with severe gastritis need ventilators because their lungs are damaged, or they need continuous dialysis because their kidneys are malfunctioning.



In particular, people with weak kidneys are at high risk of worsening their symptoms when they contract Corona. Such patients need to find a serious bed for dialysis, but the situation is that they are waiting because there are not enough beds.



This is the exclusive report by Cho Dong-chan, a medical professional reporter.



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is a kidney dialysis room in a hospital in Busan.



Even on a day off, one patient is receiving dialysis treatment separately.



The patient is in close contact with the confirmed person and is being treated three times a week in the quarantine dialysis room of the hospital he used to stay at home because there is no quarantine facility available for dialysis and self-quarantine.



[Mobile/nephrologist: (dialysis patient) because there is no place for isolation treatment, and it is not possible to go to another center. It's cramped. The situation… .]



There are 12 dialysis patients in this hospital alone.



[Mobile/nephrologist: It is a very difficult situation in which the medical staff have to go to work separately (dialysis quarantine patients) and have to dialysis for 12 minutes separately from the afternoon to night on Hwa-Mok Saturday.]



A bigger problem is the kidney disease confirmed by Corona. The number of patients is increasing rapidly.



As of the end of last month, as of the end of last month, as of the end of last month, there were 508 patients with kidney disease in Korea who were infected with the Corona virus.



In addition, 11 patients with kidney disease were confirmed as a group at a general hospital in Busan this month.



Kidney disease patients are a very high-risk group with a two to five times higher corona fatality rate.



Still, they have to wait for a critically ill bed.



[Lee Young-gi/Professor of Gangnam Sacred Heart Hospital Nephrology: Dialysis patients need to receive dialysis on time, but as the period of non-hospitalization is getting longer, it may go to a dangerous state now, and the actual condition of inpatients may be a little bad.]



Quarantine authorities last weekend designated Yongin Gangnam Hospital as a dialysis-specialized corona hospital, but the infection rate of dialysis patients is too fast.



There are 100,000 dialysis patients in Korea, and measures to slow the infection rate are urgently needed.



(Video editing: Hong-myeong Lee, CG: Soo-in Jo)



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