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The number of people who have suffered from Corona in Korea has now exceeded 10 million.
Among them, the number of confirmed patients with disabilities is increasing, but the problem is that the disabled have difficulty receiving proper treatment or support, and the authorities are not even collecting statistics.
Reporter Han Seong-hee covered the stories of people who are more difficult and burdened by Corona.
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Ms. Park, suffering from a brain lesion, suffered severe burns during her home quarantine after being confirmed last month.
She poured the water she had boiled in a coffee pot on her body.
It happened while her mother, who had brought her Mr. Park, was diagnosed with the disease and was lying down.
[Mother Jung Mo: Because my mom is having a hard time, Mom says she makes coffee now. She stops hot water and she boils it in a coffee pot like this...
The flesh just keeps coming out.]
She called the public health center, ward office, city hall and hospital hundreds of times to ask for treatment, but was told that they couldn't help before the quarantine was lifted.
[Mother Jeong-mo: I was just on the phone with the city hall like this, and they said 'I don't know how to do this', so there is no way to help.
During home treatment...
'The government guidelines say, 'What should we do?'
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Mr. Jin-Woo Yoo, who suffered from severe brain lesions and was isolated at home alone.
It was difficult for him to cook by himself, so the activity support company could come every day to fix his meal, but the support was cut off immediately after the diagnosis.
[Jinwoo Yoo: I can’t do anything by myself and I can’t even eat rice, but I ordered one (delivered food) for breakfast, lunch, and dinner…
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Following the vaccination, the corona test hit a wall.
[Jinwoo Yoo: I went (to the hospital), but there were four stairs, and there was an elevator above it.
(Stairs outside the hospital) I tried to get hit from the bottom, but that didn't work...
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Disabled people usually have lower immunity than non-disabled people.
When symptoms worsen after being confirmed, it is difficult to contact a hospital or clinic on your own to receive treatment.
However, with a few exceptions, such as respiratory and kidney disorders, they are excluded from the intensive care group, where they receive health monitoring twice a day.
In the United States, a separate call center is operated for confirmed patients with disabilities, and in the United Kingdom, local governments are taking steps to ensure that support for activities does not stop even after the confirmation.
The only thing disabled people can do in Korea is to go out on the street and raise their voices.
[COVID-19 is a disaster, build a national system of care area!
Build it!
Build it!]
(Video coverage: Kim Won-bae, Video editing: Yoon Tae-ho)