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cost of corona treatment is supported by the state without the need for individual patients to pay.

However, the target of support is limited to the period of treatment in an isolated bed.

However, recently, among the severe cases of Corona, there are not many cases that continue severe treatment even after quarantine is over, and some patients have to pay tens of thousands of won for treatment.



Reporter Park Soo-jin reported.



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This is a medical bill for a critically ill patient who has been battling for more than two months.



Until December 30, last year, the cost of treatment was 14 million won.



All of the patient's contribution of 1.5 million won was supported by the government.



However, from the next day to the present, the cost of treatment is 200 million won.



The patient pays more than 42 million won, but there is no government support.



Because the quarantine period is over.



[Corona Critical Care Protector: A certificate is displayed saying that you have recovered from Corona.

My mother is lying down wearing Ekmo, and (Corona) is not a fixed-term system, it's just a number like 'It's all over in a week'.]



The government has no transmission power after 7 days of quarantine I see you are not a patient.



However, this patient's symptoms of lung fibrosis and respiratory failure worsened after release from isolation.



[Corona Critical Care Protector: I used up all the money I had long ago, and I borrowed it from relatives, blocked it with a credit card, or something like this



.



The more severe the patient is, the longer the aftereffects appear, and the more expensive equipment is used, such as the artificial cardiopulmonary system, Ekmo, which increases the burden of treatment costs.

[Lee Bo-ra / Co-CEO of Humanitarian



Doctors Council: I think it is necessary to widen the interpretation of the Infectious Disease Prevention Act so that we can support a wider range of after-effects after (removal of quarantine).]



If you are hospitalized afterward, the government is demanding that you cover the full cost of treatment regardless of whether the quarantine is lifted.



(Video coverage: Oh Young-chun, Video editing: Yoon Tae-ho, CG: Hong Seong-yong, VJ: Shin So-young)