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Inspection stations are installed at highway rest areas, and emergency rooms and on-call pharmacies are operated.

However, measures for vulnerable groups such as dialysis patients and pregnant women need to be supplemented.



This is Cho Dong-chan, a medical reporter.



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A temporary screening and inspection station has been established at the Anseong Service Area in the Seoul direction on the Gyeongbu Expressway.



Anyone can get a free corona test.



Temporary inspection stations in 9 rest areas in Gyeonggi, Jeonnam, and Gyeongnam all operate until the 12th, with 2 upbound lines and the rest downbound lines.



During the Chuseok holiday, an average of 447 screening clinics and 64 temporary screening centers are operated per day, which can be found on the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.



Treatment and prescription are also available.



On average, 2,500 local hospitals and clinics and 500 pharmacies are open every day, and 525 emergency rooms are also open 24 hours a day.



[Park Hyang / Head of the Central Disaster Management Headquarters: (Home treatment) More than 150 out of 170 medical consultation centers are scheduled to operate normally during the holiday period.

Of these, 144 are especially open at night.]



However, measures for dialysis patients and patients with rare incurable diseases must be strengthened urgently.



As a result of a survey by the Dialysis Society, it was found that the preparation status of the isolation dialysis room differed greatly by region.



[Mobile/dialysis specialist (Korea Dialysis Association): In the case of the metropolitan area, Busan area, Ulsan area, etc., it is firmly established, but in other areas, it is not built to that extent, so the academic society is also making efforts.]



General Corona Patients with rare and incurable diseases that are difficult to treat in the emergency room are in a situation where they need to find out which hospitals can treat them during the holiday season.



[Jang Young-hwan/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Even those who inject drugs from the pump have to go to the hospital and get the medication by machine when the medicine runs out right away, but (if confirmed), that itself is nothing.



] Emergency delivery of pregnant women was supposed to be handled by the on-call tertiary hospital, but most of them are in the metropolitan area, so if you are in a rural area, you should check in advance.



(Video editing: Eunjin Choi, CG: Dongmin Seo, VJ: Soyoung Shin)