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It turned out that emergency medical staff, who had to focus on reviving the victims on the day of the disaster, were forced to secure a funeral home.

As the disaster response did not work properly, parents had to wander from hospital to hospital looking for their children who had no idea where they were.



This is reporter Won Jong-jin's report.



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[Moon Seong-cheol/Families of victims of the Itaewon disaster: That Sunday, I searched all funeral homes in Seoul.

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In the early morning of the day after the disaster, parents who had been wandering through the hospital looking for their children who had not returned came across their dead children in a foreign land.



[Lee Jung-ok/Bereaved families of the victims of the Itaewon disaster: Take all the bodies to the outskirts of Seoul or Gyeonggi-do and check them there.] It



happened because more than 150 victims were killed at once, and a funeral home was not secured quickly.



According to the <Social Disaster Victim Support Policy Guide> published by the government, local governments must secure a funeral home and deliver it to the bereaved family, but emergency medical situation room participants were mobilized that night to secure the funeral home.



The group chat room of the Central Emergency Medical Situation Room obtained by SBS contained a situation in which the emergency medical situation team was forced to work on securing a funeral home due to the successive death decisions.



The emergency medical team, tired of arranging a funeral home all night, complained, "Why do we have to do this?"



[Shin Hyun-young / Democratic Party member of the Special Committee on State Affairs Investigation of Itaewon Disaster: On the day of the disaster, the situation room of the Central Emergency Medical Center, which had to do its best to save even one more life, was doing a funeral service, which is a task that the local government should do. It is quite shocking.]



Confusion reached its peak on the day of the disaster, and the system was still not functioning properly in a major disaster.