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Instead, the government said it would spend more money on essential medical care and serious illnesses.

He also said he would make the emergency medical system stronger, but the response of the medical community to this government policy is mixed.



Jo Dong-chan is a medical reporter.



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The nurse at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, who died last July, was quickly diagnosed with a cerebral hemorrhage, but was transferred to another hospital because there was no specialist in craniotomy neurosurgery.



The government decided to change 40 regional emergency medical centers that are operated mainly for diagnosis into severe emergency medical centers so that they can receive surgery, and increase the number of 10 more.



Establish a new public policy fee to raise the current fee for emergency surgery by at least 100% and up to 175% more than non-emergency surgery.



[Lee Hyeong-hoon/Health and Medical Policy Director, Ministry of Health and Welfare: Night holiday emergencies, high-difficulty, and high-risk parts are on-call, or a plan to compensate for these things.] If



local hospitals share information with 119 to create an on-call surgery system, 50% of the cost will be covered in advance. decided to pay.



[Park Ik-seong/Vice President of the Korean Society of Neurosurgery: We tied one or two or three hospitals in the region, and this week, our hospital is Monday.

(In this way) connect the emergency medical system so that you can go directly to the hospital for final treatment (to).]



The current regulations of 14 cardiocerebrovascular centers across the country require only one neurosurgeon, so one There is an aspect that induced me to stay on duty 365 days a year.



However, this measure did not come up with regulations on the number of specialists.



This is because of concerns such as an imbalance in the distribution of doctors by region.



Surgery is the most essential emergency surgery, but local surgical measures are missing.



[Lee Woo-yong/Vice President of the Korean Society of Surgery: Local surgery is almost destroyed.

It is quite unfortunate that the number of regional additions to the essential medical surgical system is not currently considered.]



Health authorities announced that they would make detailed plans for strengthening essential medical care in consultation with the medical community.



(Video coverage: Lee Chan-soo, Video editing: Lee Sang-min, CG: Eom So-min · Kang Kyung-lim



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